Word: downe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Williams' campaigns often lose him subscriptions (he gets many letters threatening "to come down there and hang you"), but he gets so many new ones that the Farmer is already outgrowing the modern plant which Williams built for $100,000 in Montgomery last year. The Farmer carries little national...
Last week, on the same program, Godfrey was inclined to forgive the swoon-happy teen-agers because he had spotted the real villain. He announced that "an over-zealous publicity man was the guy who . . . got 30 or 40 of them right down in the front row and told them...
He felt a little foolish bustling down the street all dressed in black on that hot day in 1927. But he felt more foolish still when he saw the tall young man in tennis flannels who opened the door of the dean's house.
No Speeches. On his 20th anniversary there would be no elaborate festivities for tall (6 ft. 2 in.), trim, greying Bob Hutchins. "If there is one thing I hate worse than a long introductory speech," he snorted when his trustees offered to give him a dinner, "it is a lot...
Otherwise, there were the usual conferences and brief interviews; and as always, the stack of "reading-for-tonight" papers on the floor mounted to the toppling point. At 50, Robert Hutchins was slightly mellower in manner. But he could still get excited-now puffing a Fatima and pacing about, now...