Word: alf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alf M. London of Kansas, in Manhattan for a visit, dropped in at the opera, and was forbidden to enter the Metropolitan Opera Club for a snack at intermission: he was not wearing tails. Though his host was the club's president, Landon reported later, "nothing . . . would change the mind of the man at the door." Observed the onetime candidate for President of the U.S.: "It's not the first time I was barred from a place...
Boom, Boom. It was the throb of a favorite-son boom for Chief of Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower, who in 1948 will become President Eisenhower of Columbia University. Behind the drums were Roy Roberts' potent Kansas City Star and a would-be Eisenhower campaign manager, Alf Landon, who had pointedly stayed away from Dewey doings in Kansas City. A fortnight ago Ike had again denied his political ambitions, but announced: "I haven't the effrontery to say I wouldn't be President." No one knew better than Dewey, beaten by Willkie in 1940, how much spontaneous combustion...
...Torment, made in Sweden, the central character is a fine-minded, troubled boy in his late teens (Alf Kjellin). The villain is a pathologically cruel Latin teacher (Stig Jarrel). The provocatress of disaster is a loose girl of the town (Mai Zetterling) with whom the boy becomes involved, partly through sexual infatuation. But he is also concerned over her terror of a pitiless lover whom she dares not name but who, it becomes more & more obvious, is the sick teacher. Commencement time is approaching. The boy becomes ever less capable of study, ever more painfully the victim...
Walk wide o' the Widow at Windsor For 'alf o' creation she owns...
Ingrown Heirs. As a self-sustaining satrapy, the Star grows its own bosses. Roy Roberts began as a carrier boy in Lawrence, was a campus correspondent at the University of Kansas (he was there with Alf Landon). He covered first state, then nation politics, got his news by getting friendly with the men who made it. "I never cared much for press conferences," says Roberts. "I always liked to get my stuff out the back door...