Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the Botanical Museum were represented in the announcement, Hugh C. Cutler and Donovan S. Correll '39, both research fellows. Cutler will study the origin of the maize plant in South America, and Correll will investigate an American botanical species. Albert C. Smith, Curator of the Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum, will engage in Botanical exploration of the Fiji Islands...
Died. Colonel Albert Arnold Sprague, 69, wholesale grocer (Sprague Warner-Kenny Corp.), onetime "generalissimo" of Chicago's anti-crime committee, power behind Mayor Anton J. Cermak's short lived civic-reform drive (which ended in 1933 when Cermak was killed by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin D. Roosevelt); in Chicago...
...another World's Fair. In London last week, the British Government announced that "no money or effort" would be spared to guarantee that it "will surpass any previous international event of the same character." Probable date: 1951, centenary of London's great exhibition for which Prince Albert had the famed Crystal Palace built in Hyde Park...
...theater public: people desperately needing escape were chained to Paris but cheated of the U.S. movies they had doted on. But their war experiences bred in them more serious tastes, which accounts for such recent highbrow hits as Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis Clos, Near-Existentialist Albert Camus' Caligula (headed for Broadway), T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral...
...Albert William Arneson...