Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other novelist involved in the show was the 42-year-old, Wisconsin-born, Left Banker-that-was, Glenway Wescott (The Grandmothers, The Pilgrim Hawk). For the catalogue of the Remarque collection he wrote an eminently quotable introduction...
...Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, 66, Britain's First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff from May 1939 to last Oct. 4; some six weeks after being taken ill while returning from the Quebec Conference; in London. Son of an English lawyer and Boston-born mother, cock-hatted, hawk-faced Sir Dudley commanded a man-of-war at Jutland, later helped set up Britain's convoy system. In World War II he brilliantly organized supplies, blockades...
Jack Pots. In Ogden, Utah, Victor Adams dipped his hand into a box to draw the winner of a $1,000 war-bond lottery, drew his own name. In Gordon, Wis., Autoist Roy Guest saw a hawk overhead with a partridge in its mouth, honked his horn twice, startled the hawk into dropping the bird in front...
...Brother Tommy- a "kind of stooge or straight man for my father." Tommy kept a sparrow hawk in his bedroom, "and whenever he came through the door, it shrieked ecstatically and did knee bends, like a man trying to decide whether the crotch in his pants was too tight...
...Girdler Mind. Eagle-bald, hawk-nosed Tom Girdler, at 66, has one possession of which he is inordinately proud-a mind of his own. Most readers will find its self-revelations the most interesting part of Tom Girdler's autobiography. The pugnacious author often mistakes shallowness for insight ("With free water and cheap soap who really is obliged to live in filth?"), but in his wrestling with the problem of Labor & Management he tackles squarely one of the thorniest problems in the U.S. The conclusions he has reached are important, not because they are Tom Girdler...