Word: erik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect, the election called for a vote of confidence in Norway's four-year-old Socialist experiment, directed by lean, ascetic Commerce Minister Erik Brofoss, a Norse version of Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps...
...Hero Erik Gorin quits his instructorship at a Midwestern college in disgust at university politics. He takes a better paying job with a machine-tool company, where he buries his ethics and tries to wiggle into a managerial position. But Erik's big pitch is a big flop; his employer outmaneuvers him. So he signs up with the Government as a research physicist, helps split the atom and make the bomb possible. In postwar Washington (and still panting after the big money 5, he is about to team up with malefactors of great wealth who want to kidnap atomic...
...reader may feel that Erik's decision comes too late to win him a halo. On every occasion except the last, he invariably chucks science for dollars when the chips are down; in a sense, he has even deserted in the face of the enemy. The deeper objection is not that Erik is such an unstable compound, but that living with lightning makes such a dull life...
Gabler, Paul Warren of 456 Mary Place, Elgin; Elgin High. Josimovich. John Brigham of 1400 Sedgwick Street, Chicago; Francis W. Parker School, Chicago. Kelley, Donald Reed of 502 Grace Street. Elgin; Elgin High. Leavitt. Gordon Hodsdon of 522 North Spring Street. La Grange; Lyons Township High. Person, Conrad Erik of 6518 South Kimbark Street, Chicago: Hyde Park High Chicago...
...Great Hour," scripted by Erik Barnouw, president of the Radio Writers' Guild, and edited by Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, will feature the voices of President Truman, Movie Stars Gregory Peck, Robert Montgomery and Ida Lupino and Commentator Quentin Reynolds...