Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trinidad, Colo. His father was a physician and surgeon there - as was his grandfather, who established the first drugstore between Denver and Santa Fe - in Pueblo, Colo, in 1866. Grandfather also founded four newspapers, of which only the Pueblo Chieftain survives (another, the defunct Trinidad Advertiser, provided the late Damon Runyon with his first newspaper...
...said the State Department, Chiang conceded little and always too late: the official record depicts him as a leader whose wisdom was corrupted by power, his reason corroded by fear. He balked at the zealous U.S. envoys who urged and arranged negotiations with Communist leaders. As he became ever more stubbornly sure that Chinese unity could be won only by whipping the Red armies in battle, U.S. advisers from General Marshall down ever more firmly warned he could not win. They still thought China should make a deal with the Communists. Dead set against any deal of the kind, Chiang...
...with despair and defeat many years ago, and wasted billions on the dowry. But the State Department's own record raised doubt that this was always so. After V-J day, it concedes, China's economic situation was "surprisingly good and contained many elements of hope." As late as 1947, the Nationalists were "at the very peak of their military successes...
...Then you know in a minute if you're bad." Among the players who have kept the audiences paying for Broadway revivals: Eve Arden, Barry Sullivan, Ruth Hussey, Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, Sylvia Sidney, Reginald Denny, Jane Cowl Ann Harding, Laraine Day, Martha Scott the late Dame May Whitty...
Hooked. In Gaines, Pa., Raymond R. Cole boasted to friends about the 28-in. brown trout he had caught with his bare hands, learned too late from Justice of the Peace Roger Stevens that catching fish with the hands is illegal. Fine...