Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columnist Leonard Lyons, whose political sources are almost 99% New Deal, reported: "Into the Democratic National Committee headquarters came a man asking to be registered for work in the campaign. He exhibited a photo of Dewey and his Great Dane, then said: 'I want to vote for the Big Man with the Little...
Elsewhere in a world whose humor had turned to New Yorker sophistication (which Ade liked), and to the staccato gag-making of the Red Skeltons, Jack Bennys and Bob Hopes (which he disliked), George Ade was an almost forgotten name. Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that Humorist Bob Benchley had to repair to the Stork Club to forget, after hearing a CBS announcer tell about the death of "the Indiana writer, George...
...gauge of war's effect on civilians is the number of "psychosomatic" ills (ulcers, headaches, tiredness, etc.) among draftees. On the basis of 13,000,000 physicals, Colonel Leonard George Rowntree says such ills have doubled since war began, have increased even among Negroes, who as a rule are not great worriers...
...ballet together with Janet Reed. Born Jerome Rabinowitz, Robbins grew up in Weehawken, N.J., was in & out of little dance groups for six years without getting anywhere. He started plotting Fancy Free last June, got the New York Philharmonic's 25-year-old assistant conductor Leonard Bernstein to do the music. Now Hollywood and Broadway will not let Robbins alone. Says he, the son of a corset manufacturer: "Who am I? Just a guy from Weehawken, and all of a sudden-boom...
Died. William Ellery Leonard, 68, longtime agoraphobiac, poet (Two Lives), professor of English at the University of Wisconsin; of a heart ailment; in Madison. In his autobiography (The Locomotive God), he revealed that his terror of travel, which kept him locked in a "phobic prison" of five campus blocks, traced back to a roaring locomotive that scared the be-junior out of him when he was two. In 1935 his third wife (Coed Grace Golden) led him out of sight of his home-to walk a fearful eight blocks to Madison's Capitol Square. When she divorced...