Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a squadron of jets rumbling in salute overhead, General George C. Kenney, 62, commander of MacArthur's air forces in World War II, took his last review, got some final honors for 34 years of service. Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg pinned a second Oak Leaf Cluster to Kenney's Distinguished Service Medal for the past three years as head of the Air University, then added another medal, the Legion of Merit, for his service (1946) as senior U.S. member on the United Nations Military Staff Committee. From Secretary of Defense General George C. Marshall...
...typical Maxwell performance one night last week began with a fast, explosive samba, went on to a sentimental arrangement of Kurt Weill's September Song and a plunky version of I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover. The final numbers: a medley of Gershwin tunes and a swing arrangement of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. Says Maxwell: "I play Liszt as I think Liszt would play if he were alive today." The supper-club crowd hushed down to devoted silence for Maxwell's 20-minute performance, even when their glasses stood empty...
...took a moment for returning white men to recognize the little town on the Sulu Sea. All the wood-framed, tin-roofed, prewar houses were gone; sleazy palm-leaf shacks swayed in their places. The flies were thicker, the natives were thinner; only the charring equatorial heat was the same. Nevertheless, Harry and Agnes Keith were glad to be back. Before war and Japanese prison camps, the "dirty, stinking little town" of Sandakan, British North Borneo, was home...
Less remembered are the covers that worked out as four-leaf clovers for the people they featured. Among the 17 sport covers since World WarII, 12 seem to have brought at least as much good luck...
...Lovely Day Today or wander placidly through Bix Beiderbecke's jazz classic, In a Mist. Then he changes his pace. As Sutton explains it, "When the crowd gets with me, I begin bearing down." Sutton, bearing down on such ragtime standards as Ballin' the Jack or Maple Leaf Rag, delivers some of the solidest gutbucket piano being pounded out today...