Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paymaster. In all England no one was happier about the results than a wry, freckled Pennsylvania Dutchman, Lieut. General Carl Spaatz, commander of U.S. strategic bombing forces. "Tooey" Spaatz is a hardboiled, able airman who has fought the battles of air power all the way from Washington to Britain to Africa and back to Britain again, shrugging off every disappointment, every setback, with the glumly philosophic phrase: "That's a helluva way to run a railroad...
...Negroes to visit white schools and vice versa is to tempt them. Novelist Carl Van Vechten (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven, Peter Whiffle) has done just that with a scheme involving Yale and Fisk Universities...
White-haired, 63-year-old Carl Van Vechten is as incurable a collector as his own Peter Whiffle. But he usually gives everything away. The New-York Public Library has his boyhood hoard of cigaret pictures. Fastidious, unpredictable Van Vechten does not regret having abandoned musical criticism at 33 (because he thought he was getting too fond of Strauss waltzes to be ,really judicious) or novel writing at 52 (because he had had enough). He is busy with photography, a craft in which he has dabbled since 1895 and of which he is now a top-flight practitioner. His forthcoming...
Major Walter Carl Beckham was browned off (fed to the eyebrows) by the European Theater. He felt and looked like a fighter pilot; he had grown the bushiest, sharpest-pointed fighter-pilot mustache in England. The mustache even drew civilians' stares, which added to the Major's mortification because there was nothing to justify it. In 20 sorties over western Europe in his Thunderbolt he had failed to make a kill...
...Christian Beacon found the matter indicative of "a most deplorable and desperate condition" in the Navy. The Beacon's editor, the Rev. Carl Mc-Intire, took the occasion to wind up with a slap at Chief of Naval Chaplains Robert D. Workman, "who is a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and who . . . has set out to produce a chaplaincy corps in the Navy which is streamlined according to his own ideas. . . . This information is brought with the one desire of helping to correct the condition, and that we shall have a man at the head...