Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frederick Banting, University of Toronto's professor of medical research and co-discoverer with John Macleod of insulin; as an officer in the 15th General Hospital, Canadian Army Medical Corps. In World War I Researcher Banting was wounded at Cambrai, France, won the Military Cross...
Alastair Francis Buchan, 21, and John Buchcm, 27, Oxford-bred sons of Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan); respectively as a Princess Louise's Dragoon Guard, a Governor-General's Footguard...
...John Gielgud, willowy portrayer of historic neurotics (Hamlet, Richard...
Francis David Langhorne Astor, 27, son of Virginia-born Lady Nancy Astor. Already serving were sons Michael, William Waldorf, John Jacob. Said Lady Astor (whose gas mask contains a compartment for lipstick and compact): "I know what the horrors of war are, for I went through the last one when my boys were children. But they...
Three incidents that set radio quaking: 1) Week ago Tuesday night A. P. Correspondent John Lloyd spoke over NBC from Paris at 8:30 EDST (1:30 a. m. Paris time). "The situation is now definite," he was explaining. "There are no more doubts. ..." when suddenly he was drowned out by a giant banshee yowl. "The air raid sirens are now bawling," Reporter Lloyd shouted, and he was heard no more. But the growling, whining, shrieking sirens wailed into U. S. listeners' ears for two full minutes. Then the Paris transmitter quit, and the world heard no more from...