Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Interested Party. In Texarkana, Ark., hospital bound in a careening police car, a badly injured would-be suicide came to long enough to caution the driver: "Gosh you'll kill...
Bevin's plug for an imperial customs union warmed at least one Tory heart. When Arch-Imperialist Lord Beaverbrook, publisher of the Daily Express, heard of Bevin's remarks, he chuckled: "By God, I think I'll go right down to Transport House [Trade Union headquarters] and join the union...
...over Negro pupils; the bobby-soxers squealed with delight but didn't take any of his line of reasoning. Superintendent Lutz, a strapping six-footer who used to be a football player himself, fared no better last week with the Golden Tornado team. Said one player: "We'll go back to school if you transfer the Negroes...
...profitable; the Gershwin concert drew 20,000, as against 6,400 for an all-Brahms concert conducted by the New York Philharmonic's Bruno Walter. Bowl Manager Karl Wecker (whose salary is scaled to Bowl profits) explained: "If I have to play Gershwin to carry Brahms, I'll...
Divorced. Tommy Dorsey, 41, balding bandleader who is billed as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing"; by onetime Cinemactress Patricia Dane ("Tommy," she announced, "is the first person I'll have a date with when I return to Los Angeles"); in Reno...