Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staffman; Ben Yablonky, PM foreign news rewrite man; Cary Robertson, the Louisville Courier-Journal's Sunday editor; Arthur Wallace Hepner, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter; James Batal, OWI feature writer; Richard Edgar Stockwell, Minneapolis's WCCO-CBS associate news editor; Frank West Hewlett, United Press war correspondent; Leon Svirsky, TIME'S science editor...
...Class of 1946: Gordon Prentiss Baird, Alvan Samuel Berner, Joseph Jay Bernstein, William Aloysius Cahill, Ashley Hale Carter, William Arthur Cawley, Marvin Arthur Collier, Panaghioti Constantin Cotzias, Thomas Richard Drew, Jr., Joseph Austin Erickson, Jr., Robert Louis Feinberg, John Gilman Foster, Robert John Gabler, John Richard Gilman, Jr., Leon Arnold Green, John Joseph Hall, Lee Montgomery Hutchins, 2nd, John Dunster Kettelle, Jr., Robert William Macnamara, Herbert Anthony Mehlhorn, Adams Hoffman Nickerson, Leon Reznick, Norman Alan Wilson...
...nine wins between them, four defeats). Detroit had the best southpaw in the business, Lefty Hal Newhouser (9-4), with three stalwarts to lick him up. Also comfortably ahead of their bat ting competition: the Athletics' tall, thin submariner, Russ Christopher (10-2); Washington's knuckleballer Dutch Leon...
...green rectangles, hung in a corner of the farthest gallery. Between these extremes are such items as Philip Evergood's Rubber Raft, a war footnote in which two helpless, parched men sprawl on a raft surrounded by voracious sharks; Atlantic Pastorale, a surrealist ballet-in-seaweed by Leon Kelly; Darrel Austin's spellbinding half-dream of a mountain lion, The Great Beast; William Cropper's satirical Art Patrons...
Four other leaders of the old France were also returning from Germany. Ex-Premiers Paul Reynaud (Petain's predecessor), Edouard Daladier (of Munich fame) and Leon Blum (of the Popular Front), were presumably coming home via Switzerland. Ex-Premier Edouard Herriot (leader of the Radical Socialists) was stopping first in Moscow. These men, plus the 2,500,000 plain French prisoners and deportees pouring back home, were the potent imponderables of France's political future...