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Tossed. In Wichita, Kans., Pedestrian John Hancock was bumped by an automobile that pitched him in front of a second car going in the opposite direction. The second tossed him in front of a third. A fourth hit him. He survived...
...Liberty Belle brigade got under way last June, when the reluctance of San Antonio's young ladies to meet the Army so scandalized an energetic matron named Mrs. Norma M. Hancock that she soon had San Antonio by the ears. Business houses, clubs, churches and politicos earnestly persuaded girls to join up. To get a name for the corps, a citywide contest was held. Pretty Agnes MacTaggert, who won it, was denied membership in the Liberty Belles because she was only 16 (age limits...
When Tyler A. Whit more bought the Pratt homestead in 1939, he faced a situation-not uncommon to historians-of several different families claiming direct descent from the original "Village Blacksmith." Most convincing of these were some people bearing the respected Boston name of Hancock. Interested in authenticating the legend once and for all, Whit more supervised a minute scouring of the Cambridge archives and concluded that Dexter Pratt was the most logical hero of Longfellow's poem. One Torrey Hancock, whit more found, did build the house and operate the smithy; but he sold out to Pratt...
...listening public and for what that public wants. Yet right now you and I have to sit around and listen to sugar-tongued announcers' plugging tunes obviously whipped up in an awful hurry for one purpose: to beat a deadline. Band leaders, whose themes songs are their musical John Hancock, are forced to change those themes for tunes which scarcely identify them or their music. Of course, we hear an occasional bell-ringer like There I Go, but that's not enough, not by a long shot...
Like all Roberts romances, Oliver Wiswell is also important history. Novelist Roberts sees the American Revolution as a social revolution in which the colonial masses, stirred by rabble rousers like Sam Adams and John Hancock, brought the colonies to the brink from which they were later saved by the men who framed the Constitution. This book explains why Americans became tories, why the tories, through they appear to have represented at least half of the population in the 13 colonies, were defeated, why the English were unable to quash the rabble in arms...