Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Experience Wanted. In Brisbane. Australia, the Courier-Mail ran a classified ad: "Young lady wanted, drive car for young gent, license suspended. City, country. Expenses, small wage. Entails night driving. Urgent...
...Chandler himself in the 1955 gubernatorial primary. But long before Clements got Combs launched, the anti-Chandler field got crowded by the gubernatorial announcement of Wilson Watkins Wyatt, 53, onetime Louisville mayor (1941-45), and personal campaign manager for Adlai Stevenson in 1952. Backed by the Stevenson-prone Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, Wyatt was too much of a city egghead to suit Clements' plans...
...from the Appomattox District wanted to secede again. Proclaimed Senator Charles T. Moses, waving a portrait of Robert E. Lee astride Traveller: "That's the man for states' rights! He didn't surrender! He just walked in to see General Grant, gave his hat to a courier and said, 'We're out of food!' " The occasion: the diehards of U.S. Senator Harry Byrd's powerful political machine, aware that the state's massive resistance laws had collapsed, and that Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. was making points with a local-option plan...
...After six months of signal corps training, Ford was assigned in autumn, 1943, to Langer's division of the Office along with H. Stuart Hughes, another of the six. He worked on political intelligence for about a year and then went to London in the winter. While on a courier mission in North Africa, his plane narrowly escaped destruction when a German aircraft crossed the Mediterranean, attacked, and wounded the gunner...
...Bernard Leach, 72, perhaps the most renowned potter living, would certainly have won a prize if England's entries had not arrived late and missed the judging. A onetime partner of the great potter Hamada, Leach was trained in Japan, considers himself a "sort of courier between East and West." His bottles in the exhibition came from his Cornwall studio, but, he says, "both show early Chinese influence. The pattern of the tall one was combed or scratched on. For my smaller bottle I used a red which is considered impossible-a new color." ¶James Sheldon Carey...