Word: collier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary Knox in a recent Collier's article perhaps enjoyed telling the "secret" (kept till then by newsmen) that a U.S. airman was aboard the plane which spotted the Bismarck'and called the British fleet in for the kill. Again, although Winston Churchill was all for letting the public know about his meeting with the President as soon as it took place, Franklin Roosevelt, gleeful over his private secret, interposed every obstacle then and later to letting out even the most innocuous information...
...monarchy of Monaco (3 by 1½mi.) lost 100% of its merchant fleet last week. The Lekamuth, an ancient collier chartered from the British, was torpedoed in the North Sea bound from Newcastle with the monarchy's entire coal supply for next winter aboard. Unless another supply can be obtained, Prince Louis Honoré Charles Antoine's 24,000 subjects may have to burn Monte Carlo's roulette wheels to keep warm...
...Gustave Adolf Hess Jr. is a U.S. Army volunteer. > Several U.S. organizations tried to forward firearms to fork-wielding Farmer David McLean. > In Cairo, Hess's old nurse was sure he was not crazy. > One newspaper report leered that Hess's toenails were painted red. > Collier's Correspondent William Hillman broadcast that Hess had been converted to Buchmanism, had flown to Britain to "share" his sins. > Said Parliament's court jester, A. P. Herbert: "One day it may be these islands will shake to an unprecedented thud as Reich Marshal Göring-a parachute...
Flotsam appeared first in the summer of 1939 as a serial in Collier's, next as the sincere, ineffective film So Ends Our Night (TIME, Feb. 10). In its final form, the result of a year's revision, it is worthy of an author who is responsible for the best novel about World War I, two of the best about post-war Germany...
...TIME erred. Publisher Hearst has avoided bringing suits for libel in recent years, but in his palmy days he sued often. His suit against Collier's in 1911 was provoked by a story in the magazine averring that favorable notices were for sale in Hearst's New York Journal under the names of Arthur Brisbane and Beatrice Fairfax...