Word: johnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies apparently plan to do little. They have left small staffs behind to run Western Berlin as though it were simply 2,000,000 people. U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy makes only short visits to his OMGUS office. The halls of the building that was Clay's command post echo" now to the irrelevant footsteps of janitors, shuffling past nameless doors...
Among the U.S.'s most beautiful Negro women (listed by John Robert Powers in Ebony magazine): Contralto Marian Anderson ("an impressive personality and most presentable manners"), Mrs. Ralph Bunche ("dignity, attractive personality, character and a wonderful, soft, feminine beauty"), Hollywood's Scorch Singer Lena Home ("the best example I know of 'outer glow' and 'inner glow' delightfully joined...
...family men also ate up the weekly's authoritative sport news and lurid stories of "horrid murders, outrageous robberies . . . vulgar seductions," under such titillating or shocking headlines as SNARED BY A SCOUNDREL. AN INNOCENT COUNTRY BEAUTY or ROAST MAN (on a hotel fire). Promotion-wise Publisher Fox sponsored John L. Sullivan's bare-knuckled heavyweight bouts of the '80s, also gave championship belts and medals to rat catchers, oyster openers, bartenders and barbers...
...Lord (by W. Douglas Home; produced by Lee & J. J. Shubert and Linnit & Dunfee Ltd. by arrangement with John Krimsky) is one of those comedies that are blatantly British and otherwise quiet as mice. Treating of a titled family that has almost gone broke and an England that has gone Labor, it couldn't be more concerned with politics or less concerned about them...
Yachtsmen Frank Scully and John Gardner sailed the Crimson to a third place position in this week's Intercollegiate Star Class Championship races on the Thames. Yale's perennial winner Bob Coulson led the Elis to victory over eight colleges, Colgate placed second...