Word: goliaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edward Crandle Washer, 40, of Los Angeles is a stubborn David who declared war on the Goliath-sized Bank of America seven years ago. By last week he was close to winning...
...crucial fights. A Canadian version (close to the truth): "The hand-to-hand struggle lasted far into the night [until] the Americans withdrew." A U.S. version: "American troops won brilliant little victories at ... Lundy's Lane." ^ U.S. textbooks forgivably make much of David-&-Goliath triumphs over British vessels on Lake Erie ("Don't give up the ship"; "We have met the enemy and they are ours"). Most Canadian textbooks, ostrichlike, do not mention the naval battles...
...genius merely sneers at him, pelts him with insults. But besides playing David to the producer's Goliath, the genius plays Fairy Prince to a fetching young extra, Big Brother to a worshipful messenger boy, and is killed off for just long enough to be mourned and extolled. Then he comes to life again. He was not killed after...
...inspiration for puzzle pictures came to Painter Tchelitchew during the summer of 1940 in Vermont. Almost as exciting to gallery-goers as Hide-and-Seek was David and Goliath, just completed. The picture appears to be a highly colored masterly rendering of Vermont in autumn. But ingeniously concealed in the background is the head of Goliath. A tree contains the figure of David. Other outstanding items in the show: a brilliant portrait of Poet Charles Henri Ford with its exquisite hands; an original gouache of Helena Rubinstein, her face covered in sequins and lighted from the front by a splash...
Food shortages threaten to make a mockery of the merchandising might of grocery chain stores. At Chicago, last week, at the annual meeting of the National Association of Food Chains, goliath grocers like A. & P., Safeway and Kroger heard that the foundations of their greatness were being undermined-huge turnover shrinking, their small but carefully controlled unit profits thrown out of kilter by price ceilings...