Word: leland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chessmaster. On the checkered face of the world, Times correspondents are chessmen. Chessmaster is short, stocky 53-year-old Edwin L. (for Leland) James, a veteran foreign reporter himself. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Virginia's Randolph-Macon College, he worked for papers in Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Albany, came to the Times...
Sobriety has increased on a campus where many students have always worked their way through. Last autumn Sigma Chi chose no sweetheart, fraternities and sororities have been crippled. Dimmed out was the night bonfire before the Leland Stanford football game. Student dances have phonographs instead of name bands, are fewer, simpler. Freshman-sophomore rivalry has become competitive crop harvesting...
...When the Mason jar patent expired in 1883, the Brothers Ball (Frank, Edmund, George, William and Lucius) turned from fish kits to glass preserving jars, acquired a virtual monopoly in manufacturing them, became one of the Midwest's wealthiest families. Aged Frank, who spent his summers in Leland, Mich., commuted to work by plane...
...Vandercook was in good voice, but neglected to recall that "if you open both the top and bottom [of a window] as far as they will go" the window is still shut. H. R. Baukhage sweated, and Earl Godwin's face went red and stayed that way. Leland Stowe seemed rusty after his long Russian sojourn...
...Leland Hayward is a high-voltage Hollywood agent who handles big-name stars like Greta Garbo and Ginger Rogers, insists on calling them "Darling" on the telephone. But last week Hayward was also going places in aviation-he was a promoter, manager and part owner of Southwest Airways, a husky, 2 7-month-old enterprise in Phoenix, Ariz, which operates four big pilot-training centers, an overhaul depot for training planes and an air cargo line...