Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educated at Brown University ('26), he had done a reporter's hitch on the Newark Star-Eagle and Brooklyn Daily Times, spent eight years editing a detective story magazine, and had retired to Oxford to free lance. "In 1939," he says, "the world seemed to be going to hell. I couldn't go on writing fiction...
With a quick squiggle of his pen, President Truman last week signed a law calculated to please both U.S. tourists and the foreign merchants who load them down with perfumes, silks, tweeds, genuine shrunken heads, and other souvenirs. From now on, Americans who go abroad on trips of twelve days or longer can bring in $500 in goods duty free (the old limit was $400). The exemption on shorter trips goes up from...
...chartered bus, rumpled Candidate Dulles rode up & down the state, talking conversationally to small groups of people in the small cities and the small towns. Incidentally he argued how important he thought it was for him to go back to the Senate ("I am the most formidable single opponent that the Russians have"), but principally he lambasted a political philosophy which he said would put the U.S. people "on leash from birth to death to a federal bureaucracy...
...Front Porch. First defendant to go to trial was self-assured, balding Coleman A. ("Brownie") Lollar. Lollar operated a scuttle-sized coal mine. He had also been a special deputy sherriff...
...Stalin was too tall, they stood prepared to cut him down. Said Randolph Churchill, wartime liaison officer with Yugoslav guerrillas, "Having seen both Tito and Stalin, I would have no hesitation in asserting that Stalin is several inches shorter than Tito-and is certainly in no position to go around calling him a dwarf...