Word: jabez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Biology), Carleton S. Coon '25 (Anthropology), Frederick B. Deknatel (Fine Arts), Rupert Emerson '21 (Government), Merle Fainsod (Government), Edwin Frickey (Economics), Mason Hammond '25 (Greek and Latin, History), Michael Karpovich (History), Donald C. McKay (History), Saunders MacLane (Mathematics), Arthur T. Merritt (Music), Jean-Joseph Seznee (Romance Languages and Literatures), Jabez C. Street (Physics), Kenneth V. Thimann (Biology), Bartlett J. Whiting '25 (English), John D. Wild (Philosophy), Donald C. Williams (Philosophy), and E. Bright Wilson, Jr. (Chemistry...
...Manatee, a tale of love and whaling-men ("Violent . . . corrosive. . . . Jabez Folger['s] soul was possessed by an evil demon. . . ."), was the year's freak success. Nancy Bruff, wife of a Wall Street broker, hired crack Press Agent Russell Birdwell to put over her first novel. With a nude heroine in the form of a ship's figurehead enlivening its cover (see cut), and pretty Author Bruff. décolletée, enlivening its advertising. The Manatee soared high on best-seller lists...
Back home in England, Frenesi, with Copilot Jabez Churchill of Santa Rosa, Calif. helping Cely in the wrestle with the controls, staggered into an airdrome, landed right side up, stopped. Mechanics appraised her damage with quick professional eyes: most of the tail shot away, one wingtip gone, fuselage and wings holed more times than they could count until they got her in the dispersal station...
Before this prejudiced judge and jury, Webster begins to talk. He reminds the jurors that each made the same deal Jabez made. He tells them that an American can't enjoy a souless America. He appeals to their patriotism: "Clean American air was in your lungs, and you breathed it deeply for it was free. ... He concludes: "You are Americans all, you can't be on his side. . . . Gentlemen of the jury, don't let this country go to the Devil! . . ." The jury is won over...
Dieterle wisely lets Actor Arnold play Daniel Webster without trying to look like the great man. His Webster is not the violent Massachusetts statesman but a homely, gusty humanitarian. Jabez, his wife (Anne Shirley) and his mother (Jane Darwell) are first-rate as the kind of people who made New England "out of hard luck and codfish...