Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dubbed-in narrative is as simple as its author's pantomime (e.g., "With cheerful optimism our little Columbus descended into the vast uncharted waste-then stopped, stepped, slipped and slid"). It kids the stylized exaggerations of Big Jim, a notable heavy, by referring to him as "the noble type. . . . Oh, how he loved to suffer"; it anticipates Georgia's atrocious, kittenish, dated antics by introducing her to the audience with the single expletive: "Georgia...
...Moscow correspondents are going to read "Damyankee" into every place where they find the hallowed name of Damien, they will have Damyankees appearing in history a thousand years before Columbus...
...Hanby had failed to copyright his song. First inkling he had that it was in print came a year later, when he saw it in a Columbus, Ohio music store. He wrote to his publisher. Came the reply: "Nelly Gray is sung on both sides of the Atlantic. We have made the money and you the fame. That balances the account." Songwriter Hanby hired a lawyer, who settled for $100, kept half as his commission...
...Madison Square Garden's Knights of Columbus meet last week, Blozis tucked his event away with a so-so put. A photographer pleaded for just one more, for a picture. Blozis obliged. That shot lit 57 ft. 9½ in. away-the greatest put ever made; didn't count...
...Captain in the Artillery and Research Associate Fletchor Watson is working in a defense laboratory. The Geological Sciences have four men working on defense projects: three on leaves of absence and one resigned. In the former category are Instructor. Edward Ackerman, Assistant Professor Francis Birch, and Associate Professor Columbus Iselin; in the second, Teaching Fellow Nathan Parker...