Word: hendersons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four months barrel-bellied Leon Henderson devoted himself: 1) to Havana, Mexico and California, 2) to restoring his bridge reputation as "the best goddam no-trump player in the world," 3) to blocking traffic in such cities of narrow streets as Acapulco by strolling down them in an enormous Mexican sombrero and multicolored fringed scrape, followed by from 20 to 30 small boys, to whom he would occasionally toss a handful of centavos. The four months totally cured his acute case of Washingtonitis...
FIRST SERGEANT W. B. HENDERSON...
...slide-rulers in OPA number well over a hundred. They date from Leon Henderson's day. Among their leaders are John Kenneth Galbraith (Ph.D., ex-professor of economics), who supervises price control; Paul O'Leary (Ph.D., ex-professor of economics), in charge of rationing; Harold Rowe (Ph.D., Brookings Institution economist), who directs the food division. They closed ranks for a show down soon after Price Boss Brown asked Lou Maxon to leave his big Detroit advertising agency to try to persuade the U.S. people that OPA was no whipcracking bully, but their friend (TIME, March 22). Stocky, sandy...
Ziegfeld Follies (music by Ray Henderson; lyrics by Jack Yellen; produced by the Shuberts in association with Alfred Bloomingdale and Lou Walters) is Shubert flapdoodle. In 1934 and 1936 the Shuberts borrowed this lustrous title to some effect, but this time they have thrown it away on a completely lackluster show. Alternating undistinguished sketches with indistinguishable tunes, gaudy spectacles with soggy satire, young legs with old gags, handsome clothes with jitterbug clatter, it is just the Shuberts' old Winter Garden formula to cop the summer trade...
...Northwest of Guadalcanal, U.S. airmen intercepted a swarm of 30 to 40 Zeros, evidently headed for Henderson Field...