Word: cub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guide on the Hood. Gangling Mark Clark dropped in for a look, transferred from his Piper Cub to a jeep, toured for three hours, a Partisan guide roosting on the hood. He found weeds growing in the boulevards, only a tenth of the peacetime population of 125,000 still pottering through the dismal embers left by Allied bombings, German demolitions. The 60 docks, 35 cranes, 21 warehouses were an addled mess. Across the harbor entrance lay three sunken ships. It was plain that Leghorn would be little help to Allied supply problems for weeks to come...
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...
Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior and Administration jack of many trades, received a three-month-old Russian bear cub by plane from Persia, a gift to the U.S. Army from the Red Army, addressed to Ickes as U.S. Zookeeper, one of his least known odd jobs...
Mordecai ("Three-fingered") Brown, famed Chicago Cub pitcher of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance days, who pitched against "Christy" Mathewson 24 times and beat him 13, won the Republican nomination for state representative in Terre Haute...
Partially to compensate for the lack of a parade, Soviet officialdom declared a Charlie Chaplin festival, ordered a Shakespeare revival. Last year admiring Russians sent Chaplin a bear cub in the care of Tanker Skipper Mihail Katzel (see cut). Last week, at a gala showing of The Gold Rush (with sound), Red intellectuals again saluted the little man who, in Russian eyes, can do no wrong. Keynoted Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Jewish Art Theater: "Who are these . . . mercenary tricksters of the Hearst and McCormick tabloid press . . . who started slinging mud . . . morally to discredit Chaplin's name...