Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Julia Elizabeth Westfall Wolfe, 85, mother of the late, prodigious Novelist Thomas Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel ; Of Time and the River) ; of a heart attack; in Manhattan, after a gadabout week as Tom's literary executor (one morning she stayed up till three autographing books - TIME, Dec. 10). Driving, dominating, possessive, she was the home to ward which her angel looked. Said he: "All the critics in the world may say it's good but a man's own mother will know...
Another attraction lay in the prospects for graft and black-marketeering. But most of them, looking homeward with critical eyes, were prompted by the feeling that the U.S. was too confused a place to come back to just now. Whatever the job prospects at home, they knew they could save money in the jobs at hand, with salaries ranging from $1,704 to $5,800 a year, with all expenses paid. And those who joined UNRRA could also be sure of getting their fare home paid if they stayed for at least a year...
...year. On holy days (26 Masses), attendance usually climbs to something over 20,000. Sometimes seven and eight Masses are said at the same time, by using the side altars in both church and crypt. The two Masses at 2:30 and 2:45 a.m. are popular with homeward-bound nightclubbers, printers and reporters...
...cuts are not many. One G.I. describes Biarritz University as "the best break I've ever had in the Army." By the end of the present semester, most of the homeward-bound G.I.s for whom it was intended will be "in the pipeline" towards home, and B.A.U. is scheduled to close its ornate doors. Last week its Army boss, Brigadier General Paul W. Thompson, flew from Europe to Washington to plead that it be kept open for U.S. occupation troops in Europe. Even if it meant two months off from their soldiering, he said, it would be worth...
Says Lewis: "Being married to Dorothy was like living in the Herald Tribune city room." He once claimed: "She disappeared into the NBC building ten years ago." Dorothy is believed to have contributed to the portrait of "Winifred Homeward the Talking Woman" in Gideon Planish. "She was an automatic, self-starting talker. Any throng of more than two persons constituted a lecture audience for her, and at sight of them she mounted an imaginary platform, pushed aside an imaginary glass of ice water, and started a fervent address full of imaginary information about Conditions and Situations that lasted till...