Word: atkinsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chungking to give the Chinese provisional capital its first raid in almost two years. Three times opposed on their way, only about 30 planes reached the Chungking area, where Chinese pilots took them on. Jap bombs fell outside the city limits, did little damage. Reported ex-Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times: "Among the targets most valiantly attacked . . . were rice fields, vegetable gardens, flower gardens, one dammed-up swimming hole, clumps of bamboo, the mud banks of the Chialing River and the middle of the Chialing River itself. If it were not for the presence...
Richards Watts Jr., back from OWIing in the British Isles, wrote another farewell piece as the New York Herald Tribune's drama critic, prepared to join ex-Times Critic Brooks Atkinson in Chungking...
...Brother Atkinson gave a demonstration entitled "Private Observations"--nuff said. The evening's review ended with a take-off on the Company Commander and his Aide-de-Camp...
Broadway's threatened manpower shortage never became acute-even among chorus boys. But the theater lost several first-string critics to the war (the Times's Brooks Atkinson, Herald Tribune's Richard Watts Jr., World-Telegram's John Mason Brown, Sun's Richard Lockridge...
...dinner were Mayor Corcoran, William M. Hogan Jr., vice chairman of the city council; City Manager John B. Atkinson, and Councilmen Francis L. Sennott, Hyman Pill, Michael A. Sullivan, Marcus Morton Jr., Thomas M. McNamara, Sgt. Edward A. Crane and ex-Mayor John D. Lynch. President Conant, Treasurer William M. Claflin Jr., and the following members of the Harvard Corporation were present: Henry L. Shattuck, Dr. Roger I. Lee, Grenville Clark, and Charles A. Coolidge...