Word: goodbyes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With whimsical and bogus tenderness, U. S. newspapers last week kissed their old favorite, the Man from Mars, goodby. Reason: Walter Sydney Adams, astute director of Mt. Wilson Observatory in California, said he had observed the Martian atmosphere for water-vapor content, found none or almost none-in any case...
In those last seven days the incredible Willkie train ended its 18,759-mile run. It had been rolling for 51 days. At week's beginning it was in Ohio. Almost invariably behind schedule, it had pulled out of Jackson on time, leaving behind two court reporters and seven...
Britons saw him off with sincere regret. They respect Joe Kennedy because he has run his Embassy as smoothly as a Wall Street office, and because he is the kind of American who could never become Anglicized. The King and Queen invited him to a farewell lunch at Buckingham Palace...
In Shirley, Tenn., a slight, brown-eyed farm boy bade his widowed mother, Postmistress Daily Hull, goodby, hitchhiked 90 miles to Knoxville to enlist in the U. S. Army. Told because he was only 20 that he needed his parent's consent, he hitchhiked home, returned to say: "Mother...
"Goodby, Boys. . . ." Last fortnight a Boston Globe reporter, Joseph Dinneen, a charter member of the Guild, onetime chairman of his unit, publicly repudiated the Guild in an article in The Saturday Evening Post. Title: Goodby, Boys, I'm Through.