Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the papers in the brown envelope at registration, there generally appears one short white pasteboard card from PBH which asks all students to sign up for extracurricular philanthropic work. Office workers at PBH completed compilation of the cards yesterday and a drive is now on to sign up the men who registered interest in social service...
...Tito, some of its members had apparently gone to Yugoslavia predisposed to a rosy view. One of the visitors, Dr. Claude C. Williams of Birmingham, Ala., was "exposed" last week by the New York World-Telegram's Red-hunting Frederick Woltman as an ex-holder of a party card...
...during the war. It is the continuous host of Congress, from which all appropriations flow. Yet, except for a few baubles given to the womenfolk of important officials when they smashed bottles on the sides of ships, and the occasional loan of an automobile and a 'C' card, Washington saw nothing of the saturnalia of wartime on which the Senate committee has lifted the curtain...
...Playing-Card Faces. Usually designed to be set in lockets and viewed cupped in the hand, the miniatures showed up surprisingly well under the cold glass of the museum's showcases. Most were only two inches in their largest dimension, often pasted on the back of cut-down playing cards, but in their small compass Hilliard had captured much of the sensuous exuberance of the age of Drake, Spenser and Sidney. One was a self-portrait, at 30, fine-featured and candid-eyed, painted against Hilliard's favorite indigo-blue background. The biggest...
...uses as a measuring-rod a man he knows only by a card in a file, Adam Lorenz, an anti-Nazi journalist who had stood up to Hitler before & after 1933. From Lorenz' father, wife and friends, Cooper learns that Lorenz too had to fight the unheroic in himself. He had become a hero, a concentration-camp veteran, because he had been afraid not to be one. Cooper's search for Lorenz, against orders from his superiors, becomes the major action of the book. "If I've come this far . . . it's because...