Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then to the rendezvous came the queen bee. Dave's Dream's weaponeers, two 26-year-old ensigns, David L. Anderson and Leon D. Smith, had armed the bomb within 20 minutes after takeoff. Soaring at 30,000 feet above the polka-dotted lagoon, Dave's Dream made a dry run into the northeast wind. Bombardier Major Harold H. Wood-known to his crewmates as "Lemon Bar" because of his success at officers'-club slot machines-twirled the knobs on his bombsight, tried to line up the target ship Nevada with the cross hairs...
Underground Economist. The Théophraste Renaudot Prize went to David Rousset, for his L'Univers Concentrationnaire, a graphic, harrowing description of life in Nazi concentration camps in France. Rousset was a diligent researcher in TIME'S Paris Bureau before the war. After the occupation, he adopted the somewhat more exciting work of organizing anti-Nazi groups inside the German Army. A spy got into Rousset's organization and all the Germans were executed, but the Gestapo could not find evidence linking Rousset with the plot; he got off with a year and a half in five...
Crowds & Cops. Some weddings were bigger even than their sponsors had expected. Last week Pittsburgh's Mayor David L. Lawrence carelessly announced that "everybody" was invited to his youngest daughter's wedding. To his amazement almost everybody came; cops had to clear a lane through mobs of curious housewives to get Daughter Anna Mae and her husband out of the church...
...light. The time & place, he said, a little breathlessly, were "the most important in the world today." His network evidently disagreed. During the preceding 40 minutes -while CBS, Mutual and three independent stations broadcast Baruch in full-NBC filled the air with two throbbing soap operas, Barry Cameron and David Harum...
...highly unlikely that Mr. King, who is fond of reading the Bible, had read Bernard Clare; and he has nothing to do with censorship. The book had been banned by David Sim, an able official of the Customs and Excise department who detests the censorship phase...