Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie is "The Secret Land," a technicolor portrayal of Admiral Byrd's expedition to Little America from December, 1946 to April, 1947. Foster was assigned to help film the trip when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer asked the Signal Corps to send men with Byrd...
...stories and $400 for illustrations. He replaced the shopworn "Me and Joe went fishing" type of story with pieces by such writers as Louis Bromfield, George Sessions Perry and Donald Culross Peattie. He also took off on crusades (a current anti-pollution series is called Running Sores On Our Land), and hired a Washington correspondent to keep up with conservation news and legislation. As circulation rose, so did Ted Resting's salary; at 32, he gets $25,000 a year and is buying a stock interest (eventually...
...young Washington whom Freeman has shaken loose from thousands of documents is first a proud, preoccupied child (here Freeman is weakest, because of the many undocumented blanks in George's boyhood), then a self-made provincial surveyor, land-grabbing and money-seeking; later, a Virginia colonel of militia in the French arid Indian War with "the quenchless ambition of an ordered mind...
...Washington left over 10,000 acres and 49 slaves. To eleven-year-old George went Ferry Farm, the family home, 2,180 acres, and ten slaves. To wealthy Virginians like the Fairfaxes and the Carters that estate was small potatoes, but George was soon to prove a more accomplished land grabber than most. If he wasted any time in boyish nonsense, Freeman found no record of it: "No surviving record of his youth credits him with a laugh, even with a smile...
...Poor Resistless Heart." From the money young Washington made at surveying, he bought more land, and took to gambling at cards. He accompanied his sick brother Lawrence on a trip to Barbados and picked up a case of smallpox which marred his face for life, but also made him immune to the disease that periodically sliced through his ranks during the Revolution...