Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eminently it had been John L. Lewis' year. Starting with the suspension of the ten C. I. O. unions by A. F. of L., the final break with William Green, the historic events of the labor year revolved largely about the powerful, leonine figure of the boss of C. I. O. The rise of the Sit-Down, the storming of the automobile industry, the peaceful capitulation of U. S. Steel Corp., the disastrous strike in "Little Steel" were strictly C. I. O. affairs...
Today a maturing international competitor at an age when many a great U. S. tennis player has flashed and expired, blond, green-eyed, handsome Gottfried von Cramm stands a husky 6 ft., plays with the sureness and ease of a methodically trained master. One of the seven sons of an Oxford-educated, tennis-loving Junker, he used to roll the courts for his father and brothers on the family estate, Oelber, near the little village of Nettlingen in Hannover. He started to play at the age of 9. Four years later, asked what his plans for the future were...
...without cooling its emotional nature, has kept the sect its self-respect. Dr. Jones, 74, is tall, pink-cheeked, white-crested, talks with the crisp accent of his native South China, Me.,, of whose Yearly Meeting he is still a member. He still lives on Haverford's cricket green, a professor emeritus, likes to watch from his window the sport which he once played and which remains a major one at the college. Quaker Jones held to his pacifist principles through the World War, helped organize the Service Committee afterward to mop up wherever possible in its wake. Good...
...until death dissolved their partnership, they collaborated in all their writing, thought alike on nearly every subject and kept a joint diary. Little of their 30-odd collaborations-plays, novels, history, criticism-has survived into the 20th Century, but their Journals may be counted on to keep their memories green. Much of that racy record is still withheld. From the material now available Lewis Galantiere last week offered U. S. readers a scintillating selection...
PASTORAL-Eleanor Green-Doubleday, Dor an ($1.75). Brief, comprehensive, sensitively written account of a year two young lovers spent to good purpose in the Wisconsin countryside...