Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lady from Ohio. During World War I, brown-haired Harriet Day, a coed at Ohio State University, served coffee and doughnuts to troop trains passing through Columbus. One young soldier named John Bricker fell in love with Harriet's twinkling-eyed dignity, and after the war courted and married her. As a Columbus lawyer's wife Harriet Day Bricker painted, played the piano, gardened, composed song lyrics, raised son Jackie, 13, quietly helped her husband become Governor of Ohio. An efficient, handsome hostess, Mrs. Bricker will make no soapbox speeches in her husband's coming campaign...
Northern Negroes had plenty of chance to observe the historical political practices of the South. Said a Negro noncom: "On D-day there was all kinds of talk about democracy. But two days later white men with guns refused to allow Negroes to vote in the Columbus (Ga.) city primary...
...Newton Center, Mass., famed old Andover-Newton Theological Seminary called the Rev. George Dennis Kelsey to teach Christian Ethics at its summer school. Born 34 years ago in Columbus, Ga. (his parents both teach in Griffin, Ga.'s public schools), Mr. Kelsey hung up one of Andover-Newton's highest student scholastic records a decade ago, is now finishing a year's Rosenwald Fellowship at Yale's Divinity School. In the fall he will go back to teaching philosophy and religion at Atlanta's Morehouse College...
This year, for the first time, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. was admitted to competition with U.S. programs for the annual awards of the Institute for Education by Radio at Columbus, Ohio. Result: CBC walked off with two top prizes in the 15-year-old contest (sponsored by Ohio State University...
Then Congressman Vorys went home to his tasks as a board member of Columbus' Broad Street Methodist Church, to a stack of letters from businessmen's organizations asking for more information on foreign policy and for speeches about his proposals. He summed them up in a letter to a friend: "We need more Methodists and more businessmen in our foreign affairs, pumping more idealism and common sense into our plans...