Word: alas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buckners of Kentucky. It was a magazine cover that made a frontiersman out of wealthy, idle, spoiled young Key Pittman-perhaps the last old frontiersman to sit in the U. S. Senate. One day in 1892 (he was 20) he was leaning on his cue in a Tuscaloosa, Ala. poolroom, when he saw on a chair a brilliantly colored hunting magazine, its cover an elk's head. He decided to go to the Olympic forests of Washington to shoot elk. Next day he left for Vicksburg, settled up with his guardian, set off for the Northwest...
...William C. Know, Jr. 3L, Winchester, Tenn.; Arthur L. Krenzien 2L, Omaha, Nebr.; Leonard E. Kust 2L, Madison, Wis.; George M. Lehr 3L, Jersey City, N. J.; Nathanael A. Lemke 3L, Milwaukee, Wis.; Laurence S. Locke 2L, Woodmere, L. I., N. Y.; Robert H. Loeb 3L, Birmingham, Ala.; Stanley M. Mansfield 3L, Waukegon, Ill.; Theodore Miller 3L, Cambridge, Mass.; John G. Moskovics 2L, West Los Angeles, Calif...
...civilian flying schools for primary flying, took its apprentice fliers on from there to Randolph Field (San Antonio, Tex.) and finished them off at Kelly Field, on the other side of town. Few months ago the Air Corps started another new flying school at Maxwell Field (Montgomery, Ala.). Last week it opened another at Moffett Field (Sunnyvale, Calif...
Last week, complete with ten singers, a conductor and assistant, two rehearsal pianists, a stage director and a driver, Impresario Wagner's operatic bus fumed out of Manhattan on the first lap of a 5,000-mile run which will take it as far south as Birmingham, Ala., as far north as Pittsfield, Mass. By Friday, when it hit the Lafayette College gymnasium at Easton, Pa., Metropolitan Singers Hilde Reggiani, Armand Tokatyan and John Gurney were complaining of the Cuban cigars smoked by fat Conductor Giuseppe Bamboschek in the back seat. But the 550-odd college students who jammed...
...most vivacious" photograph, with the promise of 4,550 more as soon as prints were ready. Margie sent her mementos out of practically pure patriotism. She wanted them distributed among the 27th Division, which will soon go into training far from the Manhattan "girlie" houses, at Anniston, Ala...