Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Junction. In Memphis, Andrew Jackson Poulton, en route from Farwell, Tex. to visit his brother after a 32-year separation, sat on a park bench, bummed a match from a stranger who turned out to be Thomas Jefferson Poulton, en route from Maydee, Tenn. to visit Brother Andrew in Farwell...
...hard park bench in Washington's Lafayette Square, three of the nation's most distinguished citizens held a momentous conference on the Rubber Scandal last week. The sun gleamed dully on the scabrous green of the old Andrew Jackson hobbyhorse statue. Serious, bespectacled James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University, shed his coat. So did aggressive, square-jawed Karl Taylor Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch-to whom the bench is a favorite office (TIME, May 12, 1941)-kept on his light summer jacket...
Wise, fact-demanding Bernie Baruch is 72 this week, and somewhat deaf. But his friends know that when he cups his hand to his good right ear and asks that a question be repeated he is often just stalling. And he can well make a park bench his office: he carries all the facts and principles of war economy in his patrician head...
...time the Supreme Court appointment comes to Colman, he is so busy trying to clear Gardener Grant that he barely notices the honor. At induction time he takes his seat on the supreme bench with a new light in his eye. The light, of course, is Miss Jean Arthur. But Gary Grant gets her-a departure which would be more momentous if Producer-Director George Stevens had not scrapped his love story for the comedy...
...warm weather parks are better hunting grounds than pubs. With the increase of U.S. troops in London, no girl need stroll alone. More aggressive than Tommies, or even the fast-working Canadians, a U.S. soldier does not hesitate to leap off a Hyde Park bench and catch a passing pretty around the waist. Average forgiveness time, they report, is three minutes for civilians, somewhat longer for girls in uniform. For daylight dates, soldiers like the prestige of uniforms. But they tend to choose unmilitary women for the evening: service girls must report back to barracks by 11 o'clock...