Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Shively Knight is a tall, balding, vigorous man of 49 who in double-quick time has become one of the most important and prosperous newspaper publishers in the U.S. Last week, as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, he put his aggressiveness to work for worldwide freedom of the press...
Others, notably the Associated Press's Kent Cooper and the United Press's Hugh Baillie, have been urging U.S. publishers since the end of World War I to pull to gether for treaty-guaranteed press access to information and communications throughout the world. The Knight-prodded ASNE planned to start by urging its aims on the platform committees of the Republican and Democratic conventions. Publisher Knight named a strong committee to plead the cause there and elsewhere...
...girl friends Constance Moore, Joan Davis and Nancy Kelly. Samples: the principals singing and dancing I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad; Dinah in blackface; a four-voice rendition of the Sextette from Lucia, with Murphy (as a matador) and Cantor (as a knight-at-arms) munching bananas; Eddie Cantor and Joan Davis impersonating Antony & Cleopatra. The story concerns George Murphy, a wolf, who has heart trouble with Nancy Kelly, a wolverine, and Constance Moore, who 1) shuns, 2) marries, 3) divorces, 4) remarries him. Common sense is left strictly (in small doses...
...Hitler's birthday, straight-backed Hans Hube journeyed to Berlin, stood at stiff attention while the Führer pinned oak leaves to the Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross) on his arched chest. Germany needed heroes; the Nazi press obediently hailed the 53-year-old general...
General Douglas MacArthur is also a Knight of the Bath (TIME, March 27), but has not yet been decorated by Soviet Russia, presumably because he is not deemed to be fighting in the same...