Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poles, two gates and a brick wall, he placed fourth from last. Said the prince gallantly of his gal lant mount: "She is a good mare and the faults were mine." Rewards & Returns George Catlett Marshall, a policy maker of some reputation, was elected a director of Pan American Airways Corp...
...Kirkwood Jr., husky, handsome pro golfer and "the Ideal American Boy" who plays Joe Palooka in the movies, was hauled off to court in Worcester, Mass. and adjudged the father of a pair of six-year-old ideal American twins belonging to a movie cashier named Florence Hep-penstall. "I scarcely knew the girl," said Joe, who nonetheless made a prompt cash settlement...
Among his patients, reports New York Gynecologist Robert T. Frank in the current Journal of the American Medical Association, "a large number are fear-stricken and panicky . . . They may . have been told tactlessly by their physician that they have a tumor in the breast, ovary or womb which requires immediate operation. [They] may resist all attempts to convince them that the condition is harmless, nonmalignant and does not require operation...
...Quakers, who like peace but also like to be practical, have quite understandably been worried about troubled U.S.Soviet relations. The American Friends' Service Committee, which shared the 1947 Nobel Peace Prize with its British counterpart, earnestly believes that most worldly problems can be solved by intelligent effort, backed up by good faith...
Despite its gloom over the Senate's fatal ratification" of the North Atlantic pact, the arch-isolationist Chicago Tribune (circ. 957,000) still found one ray of sunshine last week. Cried the Trib: there is now, in Washington, "an outpost of American principles . . . better provisioned, better sited and no less valiantly defended, we hope, than young George Washington's Fort Necessity."* What Trib Publisher Bertie McCormick meant was that he had just bought the Washington Times-Herald (circ. 278,000) from the seven "faithful employees" to whom his cousin, the late Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson, had bequeathed...