Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choice to be his successor. Ricardo Núñez' first bid for public office was a strong one. The son of the general who ran up the flag of Cuban independence over Havana's Morro Castle in 1902, he was one of the island's most solid citizens. Pennsylvania-born, he trained at Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital and later became Dictator Machado's personal surgeon. Before long he got as deep into politics as Physician Grau himself. By last winter he was seeing as many politicos as patients, and University of Havana colleagues began...
Generations of mining men knew Butte, Mont, as an "island of easy money surrounded by oceans of whiskey." For 70 years, the Butte district-a mile high and almost five miles square-supplied the U.S. with one-third of its copper. But in recent years Butte (pop. 40,000) has seen little easy money. Though Butte still has much high-grade ore left, it is getting harder to mine. Since 1940, 8,000 had left Butte for better paying jobs...
Like most such pseudo-bucolic rubbish about simple folk, this one has only the very transient virtue of being in fashion. It was a mistake to waste, on such a story, the brusque, noble backgrounds (the Scottish island of Skye) and the honest abilities of Director David MacDonald, who had the controlling hand in making Desert Victory, one of the first really excellent war documentaries...
...greatest intercollegiate tennis events comes out of a seven-year wartime hibernation this summer, when combined Harvard-Yale and Oxford-Cambridge teams meet each other in the renewal of the biennial Prentice Cup competition on the turf courts of the Newport Casino, Rhode Island...
David C. Hamblett '49 of Nashua, New Hampshire, was elected captain of the 1948-49 Varsity track team last night at a meeting of this year's lettermen. Hamblett, an Exeter graduate, ran the 440 for Harvard this spring, beating Rhode Island State's IC4A champion Joe Hall, and losing out by inches to Scott Paradise and Ed Lucke in the Yale meet...