Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cavalcade of America (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). The Common Glory, with Basil Rathbone...
...America's Town Meeting (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). What Are Our Major Issues in the Coming Election? Will Rogers, Jr. and National P.C.A. Chairman Robert Kenny...
Some three weeks ago a well-heeled expedition, sponsored by the National Geographic Society, Cornell University and the Arctic Institute of North America and equipped with airplanes, motion picture cameras and other up-to-date gadgets, made a serious attack on the curlew's domestic privacy. Last week the exciting news was flashed to Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society, from Dr. Arthur A. Allen, head of the expedition: "We have found the curlew's nest." It was at 62° north latitude, 164° west longitude, near Mountain Village on the lower Yukon...
Before flying off to South America on a tennis tour, Big Jake Kramer had a few odds & ends to clean up. One of them was the National Professional Tennis Championship at Forest Hills, N.Y. He didn't feel very keen about it: he didn't dare lose it, yet there was little added glory for him in winning it. And the $1,900 prize money meant nothing to a man who had grossed $87,000 in his first season as a pro. In this frame of mind, Kramer last week nearly got his comeuppance...
...made hyperbole into a principle of composition. Everything he described was either incredibly glorious or incredibly distasteful. On a visit to Greece he felt "a stillness so intense that for a fraction of a second I heard the great heart of the world beat. . ." Revisiting the cities of America he found "a vast, unorganized lunatic asylum . . . the most horrible place on God's earth." Critic Alfred Kazin once said of him: "Is there anything more American than the picture of this last and most violent of the expatriates, hating America and all its deeds in torrential profanity, yet worshiping...