Word: brook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pacific Seas. Clinton's second cafeteria is the Pacific Seas. He and his wife selected tropical materials for it in Hawaii last fall. Its giant bamboo came from Formosa. Its façade has a 15-foot waterfall; inside is a goldfish-filled brook. Fantastic lights combine plastic and neon flowers. Many Californians think it's grand...
...followed her Maplewood, NJ. high-school teacher's advice to take up typing because "you can't make money as an actress." Teresa's present salary is about $1,000 a week. Daughter of a widowed, peripatetic insurance salesman, she once played a rippling brook in a grade-school pageant, a few roles in high-school plays. Then, unable to type fast enough to pass her stenographer's tests, she put in two solid summers with the Wharf Theater players in Provincetown, Mass., thence sailed right on to Broadway...
Spring fever was high in Federal Light & Traction Co.'s annual meeting, held last week on the 45th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper. Sunlight tumbled through the windows. Eight spring-struck shareholders (of Federal's 1,900) lolled in their chairs, babbled of brook trout and pheasant. One shareholder stirred, asked President Clarence H. Nichols if there was anything interesting about the company. Droned Mr. Nichols: "No, it's the same old thing, we earn our charges and a little bit more...
Like Tennyson's brook, Senator Charles Linza McNary seems to go on forever. Republican McNary went from Oregon to the Senate, at 43, in World War I: he is still there, at 67, in World War II. This year up popped a brash Republican to take a crack at Invincible Charlie. Squat, bespectacled Attorney Arthur M. Geary is no glamor boy, is considered a nuisance by most Oregon G.O.P. leaders. But he slung out a slogan that no one could ignore: "MacArthur v. McNaryism...
...Manuel Komroff's In the Years of Our Lord (Harper; $2.50), a new novel about the life of Christ to add to the brief fiction shelf which includes Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (over 2,000,000 copies since 1880), George Moore's pale The Brook Kerith (1916), Bruce Barton's Rotarian The Man Nobody Knows (1925) and Sholem Asch's lush The Nazarene (1939). (Some would include Kenan's famed Vie de Jesus...