Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had been married ten years. Big, slow-moving Albert and his neat, pretty wife Josie-Lee, seldom escaped the dawn-to-dark drudgery of farm life. They made little money. But few U.S. couples were happier. They had 52 acres ot land near Memphis, a white cottage, a little herd of dairy cattle. They had four children-a baby girl and three little boys. Both had been raised on the land, both were from plain, churchgoing Methodist families and neither had ever expected life to be different...
Then, when Albert was 40 and Josie-Lee 32, the U.S. went to war. They packed up and went to Memphis, Albert to work in a tire factory, Josie-Lee to a job in an aircraft plant. In two years they saved $3,000. But they lived in a squalid water front boarding house, saw little of each other or their children...
There were strains and irritations in their new life. Albert, who had never touched liquor, began coming home drunk. Then he quit going to church, spent half their savings on a car. Then he took up with an 18-year-old girl war-worker. Josie-Lee went to the tire plant, where she fought her rival with fists and fingernails. She won, but Albert, who had watched, simply walked away with the weeping loser...
...John Albert, Chief of OWI's Intelligence and Analysis Division in New York, tells us that all during the war the Nazi radio "quoted" TIME more often than any other magazine to give believability to its lies-usually by taking sentences out of their context to distort their meaning. (Once a Nazi station that pretended to be broadcasting from inside the U.S. gave itself away by quoting a TIME report four weeks old a few minutes before that same quote came over the air from Berlin-"thus making it clear that the same issue had reached both stations...
...Died. Albert Curtis Brown, 78, New York-born literary agent who founded Curtis Brown, Ltd. in London in 1899, developed it into an international sales agency for works of celebrated writers (Winston Churchill, John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw*); after long illness; in Whitney Point...