Word: howe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...books already published who switched from the remainder lists to the best-seller lists. Among the former were: Betty Smith, whose A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ($2.75) sold 460,000 copies in four months, Ilka Chase (In Bed We Cry, $2.50), Elizabeth Janeway (The Walsh Girls, $2.50), Helen Howe (The Whole Heart, $2.50), Allan Seager (Equinox, $2.75). Notable among the second group were Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, $3) and Christine Weston, who with two unknown novels to her all but unknown literary credit, turned out Indigo ($2.50), which reviewers compared with E. M. Forster's A Passage to India...
County, Mo., in 1865. Little Jack Pershing was five. People were singing Julia Ward Howe's new Battle Hymn of the Republic and Pershing watched the ragged soldiers come back from Appomattox. His father was sometimes farmer, sometimes section foreman who raised his children on hard chores and Pilgrim's Progress...
...revised Hymnal's nearly 600 hymns (an increase of about 40) 201 are new. Some hymns have been dropped. Most of these, like Tarry With Me, O My Saviour, were on the egocentric side. The current trend is toward theocentric hymns. Two surprising deletions: Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic, Tennyson's Crossing...
Spacing. In Warsaw, Mo., Mrs. Leonard Howe gave birth to a daughter. Next day she bore her twin in Kansas City-125 miles away...
Canada ranks fourth in the production of war materials, surpassed only by the U.S., Russia and Great Britain. Proud of that position and its record of 70% of its production shipped to allies, Munitions Minister C. D. Howe reported last week that Canada now has a weekly production of: 80 airplanes, 4,000 motor vehicles, 450 fighting vehicles, six escort, cargo or patrol vessels, 940 heavy guns, 13,000 small weapons, 525,000 rounds of heavy ammunition, 25,000,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition, 10,000 tons of chemicals and explosives, $4,000,000 worth of instrument and communications...