Word: againe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the University of Iowa's Wally Ris, a 195-lb. porpoise of a man, set out for the Olympic games last year, his father was mad: better his son should be painting the house in Chicago than off swimming in London. Even when Wally came home with the...
Come On Over. Last week everyone this side of the Iron Curtain was beckoning the tourists and reaching for the $500 million in Yankee dollars that the visitors would leave behind them. Everywhere, hotels were getting a sprucing-up, and red tape an unraveling (many countries- had abolished visas). If...
Britain turned on its street lights again last week after nearly a decade of nocturnal gloom. Hoping to entertain 130,000 U.S. guests and 430,000 from Europe, the British government, which had taken over most hotels during the war, had turned almost all of them back again. Clothing was...
Tempest in a Pot. As mayor, Walker soon reduced his onerous new job to an easygoing system. "Walker would rise about 10 o'clock and glance at the headlines," writes Fowler. "After three or four minutes with the big type, Walker . . . would . . . retire again . . . With pillows propped behind his...
In November 1946, he died. Traffic delayed the hearse on its way to St. Patrick's Cathedral. The crowds shuffled and the choir boys waited. A policeman put the thought in words: "Our little Jimmy is late again."