Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When slender, white-haired Benjamin E. Youngdahl (brother of Minnesota's Governor Luther Youngdahl) came to St. Louis in 1945 as dean of Washington University's School of Social Work, he swore that in five years he'd "win an end to the ban on Negroes ... or go elsewhere...
Then, fortnight ago, 13-year-old Alma Tallantire came home from the Maltby Hall Secondary Modern School (Yorkshire) and refused to eat her egg. When her mother, Mrs. Lewis Tallantire, wanted to know why, Alma blamed a sex lecture for girls at her school which explained how eggs were made. Mrs. Tallantire explored further, discovered among Alma's childish effects pictures copied from the school's blackboard. Said indignant Mrs. Tallantire: "[They] would label me as a dirty woman if they were found in my handbag." She compared notes with other mothers, heard that their daughters had lost...
...Young (33), Yale-educated Bill Block inherited the paper from his father, the late Paul Block, in 1941.* He has been trying to cut its ties to the Republican Party and make it an "independent" paper ever since. Bernhard is a calm, competent veteran who came up the hard...
...proved so successful that Budd dieselized his entire run as fast as he could plow back earnings (now diesels power 80% of the Q's passenger miles, 50% of its freight). The big diesel payoff came in freight. Because of the easier maintenance of diesels, Budd stepped up the Burlington's freight car mileage to 62.7 miles a day by 1947 (v. a national average of 47.6). And the Burlington's net rose last year to an estimated $28 million...
Born. To Josephine Medill Patterson Reeve Albright, 35, daughter of the late Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News, and Artist Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, 51, who specializes in painfully detailed paintings of decay and degeneration (Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida and the Dorian Gray painted for M-G-M): their second child, first daughter (she had two children by a former marriage); in Chicago. Name: Blandina van Etten. Weight...