Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story, entitled "The Box Lunch duck," is clearly the work of a devotee of Miss Shirley Jackson's author of "The Lottery" and other macerating tales. Again, it was only a sense of duty which prevailed over this reader's lack of interest in the story. Though its ending is momentarily stunning, the author attempted to make it appear brilliant by writing the preceding paragraphs with pen dipped in dishwater. There may be some question as to whether or not it belongs in a "humorous" magazine, as well...
...managed to duck matrimony through a full decade as Hollywood's "Most Eligible Bachelor," finally announced his engagement to Divorcee Gloria Hatrick McLean, 31, mother of two and onetime daughter-in-law of the late Evalyn Walsh ("Hope Diamond") McLean...
...Saigon, Manila and Macao are backdrops for the others), but all of them have a common theme: the tragedy of a billion people caught in the tidal wave of change sweeping the Far East. Complementing this theme is the guilt-edged confusion with which Shaplen's white men duck the vast problem instead of facing...
Some expressions that might have misled a listener in the early '40s, or sent him fruitlessly to the old Collegiate, are now so well known that people hardly need to look them up. But they are in now-ruptured duck, air sleeve, biological warfare, rocket engine, guided missile, jet propulsion and genocide...
Died. Frederic Collin Walcott, 80, onetime Republican Senator from Connecticut (1929-35); after long illness; in Stamford, Conn. A longtime friend of Herbert Hoover (he was Hoover's aide in the World War I European food relief program) and an ardent wildlife conservationist (he authored the federal duck stamp bill to finance conservation measures), Senator Walcott helped write the law which...