Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor John Bricker of Ohio, now the only candidate actively campaigning, turned up at Chicago's Union League Club, where he demanded that the U.S. hold tight to its wartime bases. He crossed over into Indiana, announced he would "intensify" his campaign. Then significantly he proceeded on his first campaign visit to the Northwest...
...mountainside . . . some giant blast furnace suddenly gone berserk. ... A moving, burning coalyard ... a torrid, gluey mass ... a gigantic, grey-and-orange glowworm. ... All the freight cars in the world had hauled cinders from all the steel mills ever built and dumped them. . . ." But a G.I. corporal from Indiana topped them all. Said he, as he watched Vesuvius in action: "Gosh, when I tell 'em about this in Muncie...
Lionel Barrymore's pleasant symphonic Partita was played by Conductor Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, was well received by Indiana-politans. Said intense Russian Sevitzky (nephew of Boston's Serge Koussevitsky): "Barrymore has as much talent musically as he has dramatically." The actor started composing at 18, modeled his work after his idols Bach and Handel, in 1942 orchestrated McDowell's Sea Pieces (originally for piano). Said Barrymore of Sevitzky: "We don't know each other and yet are good friends. He sees me one day on the screen and I listen the next...
Obsessed with an itch for riches, Mary Martin (then Mary Violette) left her native Goshen, Indiana when she was about 30, sold diamonds for a while, then heard about something better-northern Ontario's gold fields. In 1906 she got a job in a Haileybury, Ont. law office and for a month made out 60 to 65 prospec tors' affidavits daily at $2.50 each...
...home State of durable ex-Senator Jim Watson gave the Senate another notable orator last week-this time a Democrat: balding, 48-year-old Samuel Dillon Jackson, ex-State Attorney General of Indiana, ex-prosecuting attorney, longtime elder in Fort Wayne's Presbyterian Church, active member of the Scottish Rite. Governor Henry F. Schricker appointed him to fill the unexpired term of the late Frederick Van Nuys (see p. 82).* Said Senator Jackson: "I will support the President...