Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Carl Sandburg, it was one of Abe Lincoln's favorite songs. Nobody knows who wrote it, but its words got into print in 1848, in the Ethiopian Glee Book. About five years ago tubby troubadour Burl Ives first heard The Blue-Tail...
...when Carl Mydans first walked through the streets of Tokyo he must have thought many times of the 21 months of "constant, oozing fear" he and his wife Shelley spent as prisoners of the Japs after their capture in Manila...
Younger Successors. To follow Marshall, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 54, is an overwhelming favorite. Insiders consider the Air Forces job a tossup between General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz (54) and his Texas-born lieutenant in the European theater, Lieut. General Ira Eaker (49), but an even younger...
...group commander, Colonel William K. Skaer, talked matter-of-factly for a minute about the mission, then added: "We have no official word of the Japanese surrender proposal, but tonight's mission has been canceled." Thereafter, General Carl Spaatz decided, his Superforts and long-range fighters should stay aground-unless the Japanese dillydallied too long over surrender terms...
Last week another visitor to Kalamazoo (pop. 54,097) expressed Poet Carl Sandburg's sentiment even more succinctly. He was 16-year-old Herbert Flam, cocky Crown Prince of Tennis. After looking over the field in the National Junior Championships, he said: "I've seen better...