Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Harold R. Stark, recently commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe (where he was made an honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire), but on Pearl Harbor Day Chief of Naval Operations...
...cost him $450,000 to operate last year, Willie could afford to ask, and did: "So what?" Yet he never bets more than a piddling amount on a race. Not that he isn't a gambler. When he bought $125,000 worth of horses from General Motorsman Henry Knight this year, he offered to flip a coin, double or nothing. Knight hesitated for a moment, then settled for a straight sale...
Laggard Government. Amputees at Walter Reed claim that there have been no improvements in prostheses since the Civil War. Some say there have been none since the Middle Ages-and cite as evidence a knight's false...
...Chicago Daily News (never to be confused with the anglophobic Tribune), Publisher John S. Knight addressed a blunt open letter to British Publisher Lord Beaverbrook. Its subject: the U.S. people's opinion of the British war effort. Knight's verdict...
Manhattan's Literary Guild snapped up James Hilton's So Well Remembered (Little, Brown; $2.50)-catching it on the fly to Hollywood, where such earlier creations as Lost Horizon have fattened Author-Scripter Hilton's purse, made his characters familiar to millions. Other famed Hilton pictures: Knight Without Armor; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Random Harvest (see cut). British Author Hilton and Chinese Author Lau Shaw proved brothers under the skin. Both proffered an amiable, spotless husband married to a woman more harpy than human. Each seemed to feel his harpy-heroine typified the evil forces against which...