Word: glens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grinning, clownish Glen Taylor mounted the stand for his acceptance speech to assail the Marshall Plan, assail racism, assail Wall Street and U.S. military leaders. When he finished, his wife, his three small sons and his brother Paul joined him on the stand; like a well rehearsed vaudeville act, they all sang When You Were Sweet Sixteen. The applause swelled, then seemed to roll right out of the park and up to a wan and waning moon as Henry Wallace appeared, riding in an open car, circling the outfield...
...same week Joseph Stance, health inspector of Glen Cove, L.I., was sure that what he smelled was no hallucination. More like an overworked cesspool, thought Stanco. He followed his nose to the old Maxwell estate at Glen Cove, now leased as a weekend recreation spot for Russian U.N. staffers. Stanco said that he could see a pump working on the cesspool but he could not pursue his investigation further because the Russians would not let him inside the house. "You have your laws," said a courteous comrade, "and we have ours. Your American laws do not concern...
...Names Please. "We'll find out what's there or I'll know the reason why," stormed Glen Cove's mayor when Stanco made his report. "We'll take it up with the United Nations direct." Glen Cove's people said nothing. "They come," a candy-store proprietor told a reporter of his Russian customers, "they buy, and they go. But don't use my name or my address. With the world situation the way it is, you never can tell...
...Honest Senator." But the House preferred evasion and sent the bill to the Senate. There it ran head on into a waiting filibuster by Henry Wallace's running-mate, Idaho's Glen Taylor. While the floor emptied and the galleries filled, Taylor talked for eight hours and 33 minutes. At 1:10 a.m. Saturday, he was spelled by North Dakota's lone ranger, Bill Langer. Opponents of the draft sat back and chuckled. Two of the most unpopular men in the Senate were doing their work for them...
Another crewman, Richard Stockton Emmet, Jr. '46 of Glen Head, Long Island and Winthrop House received the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize. Emmet is magna cum laude in History...