Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hampshire has done something about it. Last week its League of Arts & Crafts put on its eighth annual fair in the hockey rink at Dartmouth College, Hanover. Attendance: 20,000. Sales: $10,000. On exhibition: the work of 2,000 Yankee citizens-tatting, wood carving, pottery, linoleum block prints, ironwork, jewel cutting (semiprecious stones), pins made from pine cones, baskets, buckwheat flour, etc. Most of it was spare time work done in back-street shops or snowbound, lamplit New England farmhouses. To meet stiff League standards, artisans can take lessons from League teachers (50? a lesson). They sell their wares...
...subcontract let by Inventor Johnson last November, Universal had manufactured these first Johnsons for The Netherlands East Indies' 150,000 troops (including its Home Guard Army), which may soon need all the modern weapons they can get to use against the ambitious Japanese. Close behind an initial production block of 100 rifles come 500 more this week, with still larger outputs of 1,000 to 2,000 to come. Also in parts production at Universal, soon due for the first assembly: Inventor Johnson's light (12½ Ib.), shoulder-fired machine gun, which The Netherlands East Indies...
Entry in the log book: "His real name is Henry." Gene Tierney's parents sued to block her signing a new movie contract, lost the case. Mrs. Tierney, interviewed, added that her daughter's recent elopement with Count Oleg Cassini, Hollywood dress designer, was "silly." Nancy Kelly, 20, onetime child star, called it quits with Actor Edmond O'Brien, 25, sued him for divorce. John Barrymore got into his umpteenth public scene, was delivered to the great outdoors by a nightclub bouncer...
Died. Chain Publisher Paul Block, 63, lifelong advertising salesman, who bought and sold papers he scarcely had time to get acquainted with; in Manhattan. Nearly a score of dailies from Brooklyn to Los Angeles passed through his hands, but he wound up with three: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Toledo Blade, and the Toledo Times. He gave Hotchkiss School its chapel, endowed a $100,000 foundation at Yale to study the relation of newspapers to public affairs...
Then he read the inscription on the great granite block in the center of the clearing: Here on the eleventh of November 1918 succumbed the criminal pride of the German empire . . . vanquished by the free peoples which it tried to enslave. "I look for the expression on Hitler's face. I am but fifty yards from him and see him through my glasses as though he were directly in front of me. I have seen that face many times at the great moments of his life. But today! It is afire with scorn, anger, hate, revenge, triumph. He steps...