Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nominees for the second rank are blessed with much less unanimity of acclaim. . . . For the second rank among the "immortals," I submit the names of Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Wilson...
Ready for Life. In Cleveland, after 17 years of attending night classes, 66-year-old Mrs. Eugenie Hartzell finally got her A.B. from Western Reserve University, observed: "I'm sick of exams...
...Month Club has insured the success of many books. High-pressure promotion campaigns have launched others, including last year's lusty sensation, Forever Amber. An obscure novel called The Honorable Peter Stirling started selling like wildfire in 1897 when rumor identified the chief character as President Cleveland. Alexander Woollcott boosted a short story about a retiring British schoolteacher called Goodbye, Mr. Chips out of the cloistered covers of the Atlantic Monthly and into the hurly-burly of best-sellerdom by announcing over the radio that it had sent him "quietly mad." But Americans, by & large, have read what they...
...third will make a similar study of Carlinville, Ill. A former church editor is investigating the religious life of Akron, Ohio. An ex-newspaper reporter is analyzing literature produced in the Cleveland area. Western Reserve hopes that its probings into indigenous U.S. life will eventually add up to a broad panorama of living American culture...
Period! In Cleveland, Robert Harris faced the court for sentence on a drunken driving charge, fainted dead away when he heard, "$100 and costs, to be executed by July 2." Carried Away. In Chicago, Lester Bel grade stood in line two hours for two steaks and entrusted the package to his trained cocker spaniel, a faithful package-bearer for the past five years. Next day he was still waiting anxiously for the missing dog to come home...