Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French are doing well in both respects. Last year, the Communists controlled virtually the entire country except the major cities. Since then they have lost the key rural areas, including the Red River delta and Mekong River delta, where 90% of IndoChina's rice is grown. In a land that is five-sixths jungle, Ho and his forces can still strike almost anywhere. But while last year the Communists levied $30 million worth of money and rice from farmers taking their crops to town, government forces now guard the roads so well that the Reds' toll is almost...
...will of Hollywood's late, Red-hating Director Sam (For Whom the Bell Tolls) Wood carried on the crusade. A clause in the will requires every beneficiary, except his widow, to file a non-Communist loyalty oath before collecting...
...News. Except at Easter and Christmas, most newspapers have generally kept religion stories on the "church news" page, a dull collection of building-fund reports, warmed-over sermons and church-supper notes surrounded by profitable church ads. These pages sound the same week after week, bore editors as much as they do most readers. But last Easter, editors who ran Oursler's Greatest Story got a surprise; readers were so interested that circulation jumped 5,000 to 10,000 on several papers. The Chicago Daily News started the Greatest Story on Page One, kept it there under news headlines...
They knew little about their quarry except that she was an assistant professor of history. But she sounded promising-she was a Wellesley alumna ('30) of a suitable age (38), and she had recently won a Pulitzer Prize for a scholarly biography entitled Forgotten First Citizen-John Bigelow* What the ladies saw that day was nonetheless a surprise...
Assistant Professor Margaret Clapp had deep brown eyes and dark wavy hair. In her bright red dress, she seemed too slim and pretty to be a historian of note. As she lectured, she spoke softly, seldom moved her hands except to turn the note cards in front of her. As is the custom at Brooklyn, the students constantly interrupted her with questions. Sometimes Professor Clapp answered quickly, sometimes led a lively discussion. Often she broke into a broad, dimpled smile...