Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said one Denver listener: "I remember that William Howard Taft was described as an island of amiability surrounded by people who knew what they wanted. This man Wallace is an island of good intention surrounded by people who are not sure what they want...
...plowed the 9,424-ton freighter Katoomba, bound for Marseilles with a distinguished prisoner. Sixty-six-year-old Abd el-Krim, who had brilliantly led Berbers and Arabs against Spaniards and Frenchmen in the Riff country of Morocco a generation ago, was exchanging the 21-year exile of Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean, for the milder exile of a villa on the French Riviera. Or so the French Government expected. Instead, when the Katoomba reached Port Said, Abd el-Krim, now portly and grey of beard, walked ashore and placed himself and his retinue of 40 under the protection...
Poor Little Rhode Island. The Colonel once imperiously read Rhode Island out of the Union for packing its supreme court with Democrats, and ordered a star (Rhode Island's, that is) taken out of the flag in the Tribune lobby. When a deskman suggested that defacing the flag might be illegal, the Colonel had him call the Tribune's attorneys, and stood by for their ruling. Out of the receiver came the lawyer's anguished squawk, loud enough for the Colonel to hear: "Now who in hell wants to cut a star out of the flag...
Theodore C. Backe '48, of Holworthy Hall and Bay Shere, Long Island, was elected Varsity tennis captain for the coming year after the Yale matches last week. Backe was number one player on this year's Varsity, winning several matches in the course of the year's disastrous 2 and 7 season...
Died. Lloyd Osbourne, 79, novelist; in Glendale, Calif. As a lad he asked to be told a story without girls in it; his stepfather, Robert Louis Stevenson, complied by writing Treasure Island...