Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bette Davis, vacationing in Columbus, Ga., spiked rumors that she had come South to marry her "very old friend," Corporal Louis Riley, peacetime Manhattan real-estate dealer, now stationed at nearby Fort Benning. The once divorced, once widowed cinemactress gave a party for the Corporal, invited his entire company, later said: "I am a woman of 36 and I have sense enough to announce it if I intend to get married...
Johnson mots have become legendary around Hollywood and Manhattan. When Walter Winchell met Johnson at the opening of Tobacco Road, he sneered, gently: "That's all about your kind of people, isn't it, Nunnally?" Replied Columbus, Georgia's native son: "Hell, where I come from we call that the country club set." Thrice married, twice divorced, Johnson once told friends: "I always insist on the custody of the mother...
American democracy is becoming a wingless glittering generality as a fact of the pervasive ignorance of the majority of the American people in matters of their government's operation," stated Visiting Lecturer in Government, A. Palmer yesterday. Palmer, professor of Political Science at Kenyon College, near Columbus, Ohio, cited the recent Gallup poll showing that only a third of United States citizens know their senators are, and advocated scale adult political education by unions...
...confesses his embarrassment at not being able to make a reasonable showing when his son Timmy asks him why Columbus discovered America. George undertakes to tell Sam what a reasonable answer might have included. The discussion soon ranges casually from business conditions in the Age of Discovery to Ptolemy the map maker...
...Brickers. Candidate Bricker was brought up as a Congregationalist, his wife as an Episcopalian. For the past twelve years they have been active members of the First Community Church (with members representing 27 sects) in Grandview Heights, a Columbus suburb. They attend services faithfully, have refused a regular pew, sometimes perch on chairs in the adjoining gymnasium when the church auditorium is crowded. The Governor has been a member of the Board of Deacons and the Board of Trustees, and an usher. Mrs. Bricker is active in the Women's Guild, has also been chairman of the Weekday School...