Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correctional Institution. In Columbus, Miss., Convict Frank Gardner stayed on as chef after his term was up, stayed on as a prisoner after he was caught cooking stolen chickens...
Sent to Spain, Renault made the spy's perennial discovery: that some of his most useful confederates are among the enemy. As a blind, Renault let it be known that despite the defeat of France he felt that business was business and planned to make a movie about Columbus. It was a member of the German Embassy staff who helpfully smuggled a letter for him into occupied France, asking his wife to bring the children and join him in Spain...
Commenting on the campaign, the aggressively Protestant Christian Century editorialized this week: "The Knights of Columbus are to be applauded for having 'hired a hall' in the advertising columns and there submitting the claims of their church to the test of the open forum. If Protestantism is wise, it will hasten to subject its faith to the same scrutiny...
With these words a new national advertising campaign begins this week. Its sponsors : the Knights of Columbus.* The idea originated 3½ years ago in Missouri when a small group of K. of C. businessmen decided to try promoting the Roman Catholic Church with modern sales techniques. They put 20 ads in Missouri papers. Result: hundreds of non-Catholics applied to priests for instruction, 730 people enrolled for instruction by mail...
...other eight Crimson entries in the Knights of Columbus games won't have to contend with the world's number one hurdler, but they will have their hands full. Pole-vaulters Bill Lawrence and Gene Lockett with match leaps with Bob Richards of Illinois (winner of last year's Millrose vault at 14 feet, and the favorite tonight), Boo Morcom, University of New Hampshire triple-threat field man, and Yalio freshmen Bill Apel, who set a national schoolboy record of 12 feet, six inches at Andover last year...