Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Women read the Bible more constantly than men; farmers more often than city folk...
...Canadians and Germans had grappled for every building stone in Ortona. Never before had the Wehrmacht chosen to slug it out for a town in the path of the British Eighth Army's long march up Italy's Adriatic shore. Most of Ortona's 9,000 folk fled as the Germans mined the approaches, built barricades in the streets, burrowed tanks into the cellars, brought up flame throwers, posted suicide rear guards...
...peace, Mgr. Griffin served in the Royal Naval Air Service in World War I, later became a priest. He was educated in England and Rome. His outstanding work in smoky Birmingham has been guiding the Father Hudson Homes for Children, one of Britain's largest orphanages. Birmingham folk also know the wiry, redheaded clergyman for his street preaching. For years he went every Saturday night to the "Bull Ring" (Birmingham's Hyde Park), where he sturdily traded verbal punches with hecklers...
These days he gardens, tends a few chickens, visits his wife's family's country place in Pennsylvania's Poconos. There he skis in winter, and in summer, he shyly admits, he likes to "listen to the birds." Lately he has been working on a Negro folk opera Dreamy Kid (based on a one-act play by Eugene O'Neill). Jimmie plays three nights a week in a Jamaica bar & grill. He turns down other offers. "I don't want to be held up by hard and fast rules now-I want to give...
Best story is Rudolph Umland's fantastic folk tale, Phantom Airships of the Nineties, about the great airship illusion in the corn belt. Airships were rarer than passenger pigeons when in 1890 Nebraskans first began to see mysterious lights in the night sky. Soon they saw airships flying "with the velocity of an eagle." One airship was 2,000 feet long, carried tons of dynamite to drop on the Spaniards in Cuba. Another (according to the Wilsonville Review), powered by a windmill, swept low enough for one of its crew to shout to fascinated Nebraskans a tantalizing summons: "Weiver...