Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week some 2,000,000 typical U. S. citizens marched to the polls in ten State primary elections to strike an X for their favorite Congressmen, Governors, lesser State officials. Result was an average vote, some hot local contests, a few new faces here and there, a disinclination to change horses. Highlights...
...Lily Torkellson, who had never fingered a fishing rod until last spring, was the first woman to be crowned Champion Saltwater Fisherman of Puget Sound. After mumbling a few words over a nationwide radio hookup, Champion Torkellson drove away in a Deluxe De Soto sedan-followed by four lesser prizewinners, all driving De Soto sedans...
Britain hands out many lesser decorations, but the Victoria Cross is awarded sparingly, only for "conspicuous bravery . . . in the presence of the enemy." Last week were awarded the seventh, eighth and ninth V.C.s of World War II, for deeds of extraordinary daring: Acting Flight Lieutenant Roderick Learoyd, 27, pilot of one of five Hampden bombers assigned on Aug. 12 to destroy a special objective on the Dortmund-Ems Canal. His story...
...months ago, when Hitler's Blitzkrieg rolled into Paris, one lesser, but still active member of "The Six" (Francis Poulenc) was in the French Army, another (Georges Auric) was sticking it out in Southern France, and Swiss Citizen Honegger had fled to Switzerland. Milhaud. who had been vacationing in Provence, packed up what belongings he could carry and started for the U. S. where Califor nia's Mills College had offered him a job next fall lecturing on musical composition...
Afternoons Witnesses hustled back to Convention Hall, where they had set up everything from a cafeteria to a hospital, sat on hard chairs in 117° heat and were harangued by their rafter-rattling leader, "Judge" Joseph Frederick Rutherford. Twenty lesser gatherings of Witnesses, from Boston and Honolulu, to Seattle and El Paso, heard Rutherford over loudspeakers and leased telephone wires...