Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles threw himself into a reform movement which overturned the city's ancient and corrupt political machine. Robert, after a gentleman's administration of Cincinnati had been established, aligned himself with the regular G.O.P. He and Martha remodeled a rambling house on Indian Hill. He promoted the Cincinnati Symphony, founded by his mother, and planned and raised the funds to turn Uncle Charles' mansion into a museum housing Rembrandts, Van Dycks and other paintings of a more settled pre-impressionist...
Because he had become something of a tax expert and the city's finances were in critical shape, the G.O.P. elected him to the state legislature, where he was able to win Cincinnati some financial aid. In 1938, though the party had picked another candidate, he ran for the Senate of the U.S. His wife lent him her hand. Breathlessly, she rushed around the state, bouncing into the wrong meetings, but confronting every situation with rumpled and exuberant aplomb. "Once they told me I could only talk on Abraham Lincoln. But when I got through you couldn...
...their big, fat prestige (knowing that their paper is the best place for important people to plant important news), Reston remains an unusual reporter. A cocky, calculating Clydebank boy who came to the U.S. at ten, he went to the University of Illinois, was a pressagent for the Cincinnati Reds, joined A.P. as a sportswriter in 1934. The Times hired him in London seven years ago. His persistent legwork and savvy worked as well with the State Department as with the Foreign Office: two years ago they won him a Pulitzer Prize. Last weekend, on a plane to Cleveland, Reporter...
...Cincinnati...
...Best Years" deals with the readjustment problems of three veterans returning to civilian life. Frederic March, as the banker turned 25th Division infantry sergeant, returns to "Boone City" (Cincinnati) to resume the interrupted pattern of his life with his wife Milly, played by Myrna Loy. Coming back, March takes an airplane ride with Dana Andrews, an AAF captain returning to a Boone City soda fountain, and Harold Russell, an ex-sailor who has a couple of steel hooks where his elbows end. As vice-president in charge of small loans, March finds it difficult and against his nature to insist...