Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although some of the other girls drew more gallery whistles, the decorum-conscious judges chose decorous Miss California, 19-year-old Jean Bartel of Los Angeles, as Miss America 1943. (Cash value of the title: $10,000 in lipstick endorsements, war-bond prizes, theatrical engagements, etc.) Of the ten finalists, she shared with Miss Minnesota the distinction of being tallest (5 ft. 8 in.), heaviest (130 lb.), and possessor of the biggest feet (8B). She tied for the biggest bust (36 in.). But she had the dignity the judges were after, proved it by posing an hour and a half...
...Many an observer took the Pearson flogging as further evidence of a Roosevelt turn to the right. Drew Pearson has a long and sometimes servile record as a pro-New Deal columnist, was one of the few journalistic apologists for the 1938 "purge" and the Court-packing scheme, has sent up many a New Deal trial balloon...
...press, which has usually rushed to defend the craft against the President, was this time slow to react. Lean, acidulous Drew Pearson, the capital's No. 1 gossip columnist, is not popular with his colleagues. He has always had good sources in the State and Justice Departments, was close to the old Corcoran-Cohen team, has produced many an authentic news beat (the overage destroyers deal, the University of Louisiana graft scandals). But he is frequently guilty of colossal errors of fact, often reports cocktail gossip as gospel truth, sometimes writes colossal fictions. (In 1940, a few weeks before...
Died. William Wymark ("W.W.") Jacobs, 79, for almost 50 years a favorite British humorist; after long illness; in London. For his comic Dickensian tales of London dockside life, beaky, grey-thatched Jacobs drew on boyhood experiences as the son of a Wapping wharf manager. With Many Cargoes (1896) he freed himself from a post-office clerkship. But though he culled some 17 volumes in the same vein for his 1931 omnibus, Snug Harbour, his best-known short story was the macabre The Monkey...
...Johnston's bold talk in Britain (TIME, Aug. 30) drew British fire even before he got home. Early last week the London press broke out in a rash of protest. Snapped the irascible Mirror: "Will Mr. Johnston please note that no government ... in this country is going to allow anyone to come along and buy up Great Britain at the back door." Said a letter to the Times: "What progress can be expected if the United States pursues a high tariff policy . . . and sets out to use her huge production power to export without taking payment in goods...