Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newspapers then were few and bad; the public paid up to a shilling a print for what were, in effect, editorial cartoons. George III complained that he "could not understand" Caricaturist James Gillray's pictorial attacks on him. The King would have had to be stupider than history has made him to miss the venom of Gillray's cartoon showing "Farmer George" sleepily sloffing up a soft-boiled...
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Born. To Dorothy Lamour (nee Mary Leta Dorothy Slater), 31, Hollywood's No. 1 sarongstress ; and A.A.F. Major William Ross Howard III, 38, prewar Virginia lumbermill-owner, onetime Maryland state legislator: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: John Ridgely. Weight...
...Murray style (the ex-governor is largely self-taught and his book is one of the longest literary rambles on record), poses certain problems for the lay reader. So Author Murray included a guide through the labyrinth. "First, read 'Post-Logue' at end of Book IX, Volume III; Second, then begin at Chapter A, Book IX, Volume III, and read all that Book; then, Third, begin first Chapter Volume I, keeping in mind parts first read...
...Ahead. Older chaplains, wiser in the ways of parish life, found readjustment less difficult but still far from easy. The rector of St. Andrew's Memorial Episcopal Church, Yonkers, N.Y., the Rev. Lynde Elliot May III, 40, entered the Navy in November 1942, served as a "flotilla chaplain" during the invasion of Southern France and elsewhere in the ETO, was discharged in November 1945. The experience as a padre he valued and would not have missed, but he was "darned glad to get back" to the tranquillity of his parish and to his own job. Ex-Chaplain May admitted...