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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the contestants went out on words they obviously knew, because of stage fright (one girl tripped on across). Indianapolis' entry, twelve-year-old William Frazer, wore a red-plaid "lucky" shirt, its pockets overflowing with rabbits' feet and four-leaf clovers. (He went out on mendacious.) The audience's obvious favorite was Mattie Lou Pollard, 13, who goes to a one-room schoolhouse in Thomaston, Ga. and has had only one teacher all her life. (She lost on anarchy.) Third-place winner, Leslie Dean, 12, of Hawthorne, N.J., flunked on asceticism. Other toughies: hypotenuse, covenants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What's the Good Word? | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

GEORGE STANLEY FRAZER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...TIME'S thanks to Methodist Frazer for pointing out that many Southern Protestants are concerned with more constructive courses than Pope-hating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...Picked last week as the Kaiser-Frazer representative for Newburgh and Beacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Thank You, Mr. Fish | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

When Henry J. Kaiser wants something, he says so, in tones as audible as an amplifier. Last week he bawled that the steel industry had ganged up to keep Kaiser-Frazer Corp. from making autos by refusing to sell it any steel. He asked Attorney General Thomas C. Clark to end "discrimination" against K-F. His partner Joe Frazer talked darkly that Republic Steel's Tom Girdler had said Kaiser's quick signing of labor contracts was "one reason why you are not getting any steel." Tom Girdler snorted: nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Quick Service for Henry | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

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