Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, 25 years later, the 1,000th paper (the Portsmouth, N.H. Herald) was taking James Robert Williams'* Out Our Way. His homely handiwork was the biggest drawing card on N.E.A.'s list. His panels (single pictures) tell an anecdote but no continued stories. Like the soft light of a kerosene lamp, they light up, with humor and understanding, the quiet corners of everyday life that are passed over by the searchlights of the news. The runny-nosed children and distracted parents of "Born Thirty Years Too Soon," "The Worry Wart" and "Why Mothers Get Gray" are gently...
McGill boasts, among others, of Jack Gelineau, 22-year old goal tender from Mount Royal, Quebee, who is rated as tops in Canadian circles and who is a definite prospect for the Boston Bruins. The rest of the Canadian University's squad-biography list reads like a pro and semi-pro roster, with such descriptions as "spent three years with the Boston Olympics" and "played also for the Verdun Maple Leafs" scattered throughout...
Yosemite National Park heads the list of most frequented California ski re-Dome stems the five-mile Bishop Creek run, five shorter trails, and an excellent slope downhill run descending 700 feet in little over a half mile. Badger Pass sports a ski life and three rope tows...
...list found few friends anywhere. Its incompleteness was "utterly farcical" to New Jersey's Congressman J. Parnell Thomas and to most of the members of his Un-American Activities Committee. Said Thomas: "There are hundreds of Communist and Communist-front organizations alone." Said a committee member: "As up-to-date as a Model T Ford...
...clearly what she considered to be "German assets in Austria." The Potsdam conference of July 1945 agreed that Russia could have German assets in Austria. For two years the Red Army has been seizing as German assets anything it felt like, without giving the Allies a specific list of properties. Some of the properties grabbed by the Russians as German assets really belong to Austrians, in the U.S.-British view. Said Marshall: "Exactly what is it the Soviet Union wants from Austria? What properties, interests or values? . . . Both the Austrian people and the Allies are entitled to know what...