Word: hills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gideon's Army was on the march. Henry Wallace's third party, as yet nameless and pennonless (but not penniless), bivouacked briefly last week on Capitol Hill. Wallace had come, at his own request, to deliver an attack on the European Recovery Program before the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
...Murray Hill. Next day things were different; the third party's leaders were among friends. Happily they journeyed back to Manhattan to preside over the official opening of their headquarters in a brownstone mansion on lower Park Avenue, just an indignant glance from the Union League Club...
...sedate old Murray Hill house was built in 1863, its walls rumored to be bulletproofed against Civil War draft rioters. George S. Bowdoin, a partner of J. P. Morgan, acquired it some 20 years later. In its backyard is a cemetery with eight weathered headstones-one for each of the chow dogs buried there by Bowdoin's spinster daughter, Edith, who died five years ago. What was left of gilt and ormolu in the house glistened under new fluorescent lights. Businesslike desks, clacking typewriters and paid workers crowded the high-ceilinged chambers...
Three staccato shots startled the sleepy residents of Wade's Hill Road in London's Southgate district. The listeners, and all London, were even more startled to learn that the gunfire had killed unarmed* Police Constable Nat Edgar-the first bobby to be shot in metropolitan London in 26 years...
Died. James Herbert McGraw, 87, founder of the McGraw-Hill publishing empire (38 trade magazines and the largest technical book publishing house in the world); after long illness; in San Francisco. In 1885, Schoolteacher McGraw joined the American Railway Publishing Co., later bought an interest in it for $2,500. A spectacularly successful publisher for 50 years, he always claimed that he liked schoolteaching better...