Word: frees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote to Detroit Free Press sports writer Tommy Devine, the most likely person with whom to argue his point...
...free substitutions and more time outs have lengthened football games and authorities have been unwilling to let football run too late for fear of injuries as evening shadows deepened. Hence earlier starting times have been scheduled for the past few years without due regard to the University's rulings...
...arrival in the Pacific, Kenney gave them a session which they themselves referred to as the "Black Day." On Aug. 17, 1943, over New Guinea, his "kids" destroyed 150 enemy planes one loss. Long before that, MacArthur had made his air chief a lieutenant general and given him a free hand...
...MacArthur. Hardest hit by Kenney's free-swinging, almost casual criticism is General Richard K. Sutherland, Arthur's wartime chief of staff (since retired). Admitting that Sutherland was "smart," Kenney also says that "an unfortunate bit of arrogance, combined with his egotism, had made him almost universally disliked . . . Sutherland was inclined to overemphasize his smattering of knowledge of aviation." The showdown came during the very first week, when Sutherland tried to write the orders for Kenney's first big show. Writes Kenney: "I told him that I was running the Air Force because I was the most...
...again, off-again romances and marriages in Hollywood give newspaper and magazine editors the willies. They never know when they will be caught cooing over a couple that has stopped billing. When Shirley Temple and John Agar suddenly called it quits, the Detroit Free Press was thus booby-trapped. Its Sunday magazine section, which had gone to press before the divorce announcement but was distributed two days later, pictured the "happily wedded John Agars." But the Free Press neatly recovered the fumble in a note to its readers in the news section: "This was our darling, dimpled Shirley Temple...