Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleanor Roosevelt was the "favorite American" of Woman's Home Companion readers, announced the magazine after taking a poll. Runner-up: Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...Bosom Companion. In San Antonio, Jail Matron Mamie Lyons frisked a new arrival, shook a pet tarantula out of her brassiere...
Married. Thomas Hambly Beck, 66, board chairman of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. (Collier's, Woman's Home Companion, American Magazine), side-liner in private aviation and bird conservation; and Martha Margaret Gallagher, 41, retired actress; he for the third time, she for the first; in New Milford, Conn...
...Archie Foler, a 70-year-old Negro of New Brunswick, N.J., was shot and killed by his companion, Julius Nuby, 55, because Foler failed to make good his boast that he could spell "psychology...
According to a Harvard classmate, Historian Francis Parkman suffered from "Injuns on the brain." Even on a tour of Switzerland, he sat on a rock "fancying myself again in the American woods with an Indian companion." His ailment, if such it was, gave strength and color to some of the most readable history written by any U.S. scholar (The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac). Parkman was born a Boston Brahmin, but spent much of his life covering, on foot and on horseback, the wild Western ground he was to write about. His journals, in some respects more valuable than...