Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first-rate group of 19th-and 20th-century U.S. pictures, the collection included : Winslow Homer's Sunflower Pickaninny, Sargent's portrait of Joe Jefferson as Rip van Winkle, Whistler's Red Rosalie of Lyme Regis, George Luks's Plaza Cabbie, George Bellows' Sea Spume, canvases by John Sloane, Marsden Hartley, John Marin...
Post Mortem. How long the fleet had been held there, supporting the invasion, had become the subject of rumbling & mumbling in Washington. Homer Bigart, conscientious front-line correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, had kicked off with a dispatch from Okinawa, suggesting that Tenth Army tactics had been ultraconservative, that the campaign might have moved faster if the III Marine Amphibious Corps had been used last month for an end-run landing in the south, behind the Jap lines, instead of being thrown into a power drive at the Shuri line alongside the Army's XXIV Corps. Columnist...
...usual musings and mutterings were heard as the last report was returned. Roy Hanson remarked "They just don't appreciate my genius around here." Bob Grinaker was particularly sure that there was "something wrong with the marking system," while Homer Cone groaned again and said it would be worse when they returned the results of Mr. Murphy's chowder...
...slugging of moody Phil Weintraub, big-beaked Ernie Lombardi and stumpy Manager Mel Ott (total ages no years), the Giants strutted at the top of the National League ladder with a won-lost count of 21-to-6. The veteran trio reached its peak of efficiency with a homer apiece in a single inning while copping four straight from the Chicago Cubs. Other reasons for cheer in the Giants camp: the unbeatable pitching of Bill Voiselle (8-0), the fine shortstopping of Buddy Kerr, the .347 hitting of Napoleon Reyes...
...postwar period their plans are set. They fell in love with Alaska, bought a homesite in Anchorage and a farm at Homer on the Kenai peninsula. Wild game, including black and grizzly bears, abounds at the farm. A vein of coal lies offshore, and the tide washes up more than enough lumps for heating. The Buckners plan to return there to live. Said the General: "I expect it will take me a solid year to catch up with my hunting and fishing. And I'll be so far away from things I won't be able to exercise...