Word: haling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leigh learned his nature firsthand, trekking up & down the Western deserts with his paints and brushes in his knapsack. In 1926 he went with the American Museum of Natural History's late ace taxidermist Carl Ethan Akeley on an expedition into East Africa to paint museum backdrops. Today, hale and high (6 ft. 2 in.) at 74, he lives comfortably in a trophy-laden Manhattan studio, helps his wife, Ethel Traphagen, collect costumes for the Traphagen School of Fashion, which she owns...
...liveliest cinema flashbacks on record reveals Cagney as an East Side student dentist with a mooching Irish father (Alan Hale) whose philosophy is: "I was never in the world cut out to be a street cleaner and there's no use reaching for the stars." Cagney loses the neighborhood strawberry blonde (Rita Hay worth) to a chiselling contractor (Jack Carson) and on rebound marries her girl friend (Olivia de Havilland). Later they visit the contractor, grown rich, where they dine under newfangled electric light. "Isn't it dangerous?" asks Olivia. Says Carson: "Not if you pay the bill...
...first of these is called the H.R.S. Rag, and is published by the Hot Record Society of New York. Its editor, Heywood Hale Broun, is a collector and critic whose work has included the tough assignment of going to New Orleans and recording the music of some of the oldest jazz artists in the country. Besides this he's a budding newspaperman (sportswriter on PM) and has the right idea on how to put a paper together. Every issue contains record reviews and feature articles by critics and musicians who were all listening to this stuff back in the days...
...present the director of Hale House, and associated with two other Boston settlements...
Aging Episcopal bishops were spotlighted last week when one of them voluntarily announced his retirement, declaring that his diocese needed a younger leader, and citing a new church law (due to take effect in 1943) requiring retirement at 72. The prelate: courtly, go-getting Dr. Ernest Milmore Stires, still hale & hearty at 74. His diocese: Long Island, whose 92,000 members make it the fourth largest (after New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts...