Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When LIFE'S editors, last February, decided to publish a close-up of Negro Champion Joe Louis, they looked about for a Negro journalist to write it. The man they picked was dimple-cheeked Earl Brown, 38-year-old, Virginia-born managing editor of Harlem's weekly Amsterdam News...
...Earl Brown belonged to a new school of Negro newsmen. A Harvard graduate (1924) who won his letter pitching on the varsity baseball team, onetime instructor of economics at Louisville Municipal College in Kentucky, Editor Brown believed in honest news reporting, telling the truth about Negroes for their own benefit...
...ruling in India seven times as many subjects of the King-Emperor as live in the British Isles is likely to be tough during the weeks to come for that tall, scholarly Scottish banker, Viceroy and Governor General the Marquess of Linlithgow, Earl of Hopetoun and Baron Hope. Last week the House of Commons officially gave up hope that during a Nazi Blitzkrieg the India Office in London could continue to run India by cable and radio remote control. Only thing to do was to make the Viceroy in effect not only Roi but also Dictator over...
...scurvy, and was so far in advance of his age that he flogged his seamen only when they preferred rum to fruit juice. In the end he fell a victim to meat eaters. On one of the islands which he had named after the inventor of the sandwich (the Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty), the proponent of lime juice was captured by cannibals. From shipboard that night his men watched the telltale barbecue fires. Next day they cowed the Kanakas into surrendering the indigestible portions that remained of the Pacific's greatest explorer-his hands, some...
...Earl Haig of Flanders...