Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A few yards away, at No. 6, another plaque marks, the bomb-battered, 4½-story mansion where Ambassador Walter Hines Page worked himself to death trying to get the U.S. into World War I. At No. I Grosvenor Square, housed in a massive, brick-faced concrete & steel structure, are...
LEWIS AND CLARK: PARTNERS IN DEMOCRACY (512 pp.)-John Bakeless-Morrow ($5).
On May 14, 1804, the Lewis & Clark expedition set out from its camp near St. Louis, with a crew of 42 men. They carried all the latest astronomical equipment, arms for trouble, and 21 bales of presents-looking glasses, beads, 500 brooches and 432 curtain rings for Indian earrings-total...
No account can make the 7,689-mile journey of Lewis & Clark seem dull, nor has any account, including this one, ever quite seemed to do it justice.
The news was ominous for lesser comics of the Morgan school: all the brash, postwar lads whose specialty is making fun of radio and its sponsors. Things looked far from bright for three of the most prominent members of the toss-it-away brand of comedy: 1) come January, the...