Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week, while taking off from tiny Palmyra Atoll, 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii, an Army C46 and its crew of six smashed into a reef. Radioman Buster Bailey, 19, reached for a fire extinguisher, found that he had no hand. He crawled from the burning plane into knee-deep water, stumbled and discovered that his right leg was gone, too. His fellow crewmen got him to shore and tied their belts around his bleeding stumps...
Kenneth Roberts came across this diary while researching his latest novel, Lydia Bailey (TIME, Jan. 6), and got all excited about it. Written in French, and almost unknown in the U.S., the diary was a sophisticated study, by an observant French emigre, of the callow U.S. of the 1790s. Roberts persuaded his wife to translate it and polished the translation himself. First of Moreau de St. Méry's many works to be put into English, it is not to be compared for literary quality to the contemporary notes of another French traveler, Chateaubriand. But it introduces...
...Senior and two graduate students will deliver the traditional Commencement parts at final-day ceremonies in the Yard a week from today, David W. Bailey '21, Secretary to the Corporation, announced yesterday. The speakers will be James B. Peabody '45, S. Douglass Cater '46 1G, and Robert V. Hansberger...
...Manhattan, where elephants rather than robins mark the arrival of spring, Madison Square Garden was again playing host last week to the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus. This year there were no Stravinsky or Deems Taylor scores, no Balanchine ballets, no suggestion that the circus is a Fine Art. There was no need for the new wrinkles of the war years: there was once again an abundance of new blood. Forty acts-virtually everything but the animals and clowns-were labeled "First Time in America...
...speakers, who were chosen two weeks ago, will be: William P. D. Bailey '46, Lawrence Creshkoff '46, Michael D. Dawson '46, Robert L. Fischelis '50, Edward R. W. Franklin '47, Stephen J. Gilman, Jr. '44, Paul C. Richter '46, Henry P. Robbins '48, and Paul L. Wright...