Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cooled. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, Ernest P. Medley begged police to reroute passenger planes that flew low over his house, complained that wind from the propellers often blew off his hat, that the suction pulled off his bedcovers...
...pipeline project in Canada and Alaska. The report charged that Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell Army Supply Chief, had ordered the pipeline built on the basis of a "wholly inadequate study" and had continued its construction in "disregard of repeated warnings by experts." Then it laid into Fleet Admiral Ernest King. He had "used the high office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the claim of military secrecy for the purpose of preventing the Congress and the people from discontinuing a costly blunder by a fellow officer who was unwilling to admit his mistake...
...Ernest Hemingway had to stop off at Casper, Wyo., on a vacation trip to Idaho, while 4th Wife Mary underwent an emergency operation, but he still hoped to get in some fishing with his three sons by Wives No. 1 and 2. Afterwards he would finish a new novel, but "I can't talk about the book; I never do when I am working...
...editor, Elder signed on another old Macfadden hand, ex-Liberty Editor Ernest V. Heyn. To write his first number Heyn lined up such big leaguers as Bill Tilden and Bill Stern, brought in Grantland Rice as consulting editor. The first issue, out this week, featured big picture spreads on such top-notchers as Joe Di Maggio, Ben Hogan, Ted Williams, Joe Louis. Readers would get no exposes of sports. O.J. assumes that all his readers are hero worshipers, will give his subjects the same kind of glorifying treatment that his movie magazines give screen stars...
...Ernest Thompson Seton, naturalist-writer-artist since everybody's childhood (Wild Animals I Have Known, Two Little Savages), had a good word for the young as he turned 86. He reported that "there are all kinds of youth in this day-mostly good...