Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back Later. In Albany, Calif., Clarence Ford and George Crawford escaped from jail, left a note: "Columbus took a chance. We can see they are going to throw the book at us so we are going to get as much freedom as we can. Please keep our toilet articles. . . . Also hold any mail because we know well get caught sooner or later...
...such fabulous voice as John McCormack's, either for the lyric subtleties of Mozart or the ripe Celtic emotionalism of Kathleen Mavourneen. But Downey has an exceptionally high, sweet voice, which he uses with a redolent Paddyism irresistible to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Knights of Columbus, Westbrook Pegler and most Irishmen, genuine or occasional. His voice is so high that he says of his choirboy period "in the olden days they would surely have brought...
High-Power Condenser. Now 51, the son of a real-estate dealer who did not believe in education, Bell began publishing reviews as soon as he got out of high school. When he was a 19-year-old cub reporter on the Ohio State Journal at Columbus he wrote the paper's book reviews for nothing in his spare time...
...editorial in his Houston Chronicle denouncing the recent anti-New Deal revolt in Texas. The wiseacres reasoned: Jesse had waited until .the Southerners had won their bargain, i.e., the dropping of Henry Wallace, before blasting the rebels, who are far closer to his heart than the New Dealers. In Columbus, National Chairman Robert Hannegan turned up with his own list of seven Vice Presidential possibilities. He then hurried to Washington and an hour-long conference with Franklin Roosevelt (of which not a word leaked...
America's retaliation for Christopher Columbus, Walter Lippmann, continues to discover the Old World. In U.S. War Aims, an occasionally repetitious sequel to the spectacularly successful U.S. Foreign Policy* he reports his latest discovery: the U.S. is a part of the Atlantic Community...