Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pierrot's latest escape, made in the company of his faithful lieutenant René Mâle (known as René l'Américain) and a third man, was accomplished by the rather humdrum device of enticing a guard near enough to steal his gun, and marching with it out to the street...
...manuscripts a month, and reads them all. Some of the best stuff is unsolicited: Columbia Historian Henry Steele Commager's article on the witch-hunt mentality ("Who Is Loyal to America?") which 65,000 readers requested in reprint, came in the morning mail. Ex-Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson arrived in person with his headline-making article on "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb...
Craggy, weather-beaten Claude L. (for Lafayette) Fallwell had lived a full life, and he wanted a full epitaph. Now past 70, he had crossed the country in a covered wagon, been cowboy, cook, farmer, fruitgrower, preacher and proprietor of a farmers' market. Fallwell ambled down to the La Grande (Ore.) Evening Observer (circ. 3,700) and asked how much it would cost to buy enough space to tell his whole story. He finally settled for a two-column want-ad a week, at $15 for each...
...John L.'s .miners were ready to begin their ten-day vacation; their present contract with the mine operators expired on July 1. Meanwhile the operators' spokesman, Ezra Van Horn, had filed suits which froze the miners' welfare and pension fund and prevented its distribution. If the contract were not signed, or the pension fund not unfrozen, John L.'s miners might not come back to work on July...
...last week John L. got a big break from Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who has twice slapped big fines on him. Judge Goldsborough dismissed the pension fund suits, adding that a $100-a-month pension for miners above 62 was "meager ... just enough to keep the miners from being objects of charity...