Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Middle Men. Most of these big names were names of the '20s; what of the strong men of the '30s? Ernest Hemingway, perfectionist in style and poet of action, was sweating out a new novel in Cuba. William Faulkner lay fallow, having produced from the rich river bottom of his imagination enough circumstantial fantasies to keep students of the novel and the South in a daze for years. John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus displayed his sensory gifts and grasp of underdog U.S. types, but these qualities failed to counterbalance a cheap plot. In The Pearl, published...
...Yours Very Truly." As a postal administrator in Washington the last 14 years, Donaldson is still a stranger to most of the town's politicians. He had had a nodding acquaintance with County Judge Harry Truman in Kansas City in the '20s, but in Washington has seen him only infrequently. For the past year he has sometimes sat in at Cabinet meetings for often-absent Bob Hannegan; but he spoke only when spoken...
...20s, the comics had become a maker & breaker of publishing empires. The New York Daily News-Chicago Tribune Syndicate worked out the formula (it was the late Captain Joe Patterson's) of a balanced comic page to lure readers: The Gumps for "gossip, realistic family life; Harold Teen, youth; Smitty, cute-kid stuff; Winnie Winkle, girls; Moon Mullins, burly laughter; Orphan Annie, sentiment . . . Dick Tracy, adventure and the fascination of the morbid and criminal; Terry, adventure of the most up-to-date, sophisticated type; Smilin' Jack, flying and sex; Gasoline Alley . . . life itself...
Died. Lieut. Commander Frank ("Spig") Wead, U.S.N. (ret.), 52, pioneer Navy flyer (he set five speed and endurance records in the '20s), Broadway playwright (Ceiling Zero), movie scenarist (The Citadel); of pneumonia and complications; in Santa Monica, Calif. Wead decided to become a writer when his flying was ended by a crippling accident in 1926. But he wangled his way back to active duty in 1942, served aboard Pacific carriers with his neck in a steel brace...
...Gateway. While he was washing the old girl's neck, Chep Morrison was also finding her new jobs. While he was closing some doors, he helped to open a new gateway. That was the historic gateway to world trade which the city, in the mid-'20s, had apathetically let fall into disrepair. Louisianians like Investment Banker Rudolf Hecht, Soft Drink Tycoon William G. Zetzmann and Port Director E. O. Jewell had dedicated themselves to the task of making New Orleans one of the nation's greatest ports...