Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Once an endearingly wild Prince of Wales, Henry V (at 28) had to prove his worthiness for the scepter by leading his army in war. He invaded France, England's longtime enemy. He captured Harfleur, then tried to withdraw his exhausted and vastly outnumbered army to Calais (see map). The French confronted him at Agincourt. In one of Shakespeare's most stirring verbal sennets, Henry urged his soldiers on to incredible victory. English mobility (unarmored archers) and English firepower (the quick-shooting longbow) proved too much for the heavily armored French...
Every spring Bee pores over country weeklies for ideas, peers at a big office map through his steel-rimmed bifocals, and plots out a trip. Of his style of writing, which is more like country weekly stuff than P-D prose, he said last week: "I throw conventionalism and standardization to the winds and write by ear. I let my wife read it, if possible, and we always compromise and make the changes she suggests...
...musical about Cohan, in 1939, that put C.U. on the map. Playwright Walter Kerr, then & now a member of C.U.'s drama department, got the idea when he found a sheaf of Cohan songs in an old trunk. Hollywood had had the idea before him, but in spite of waving $100,000 checks at Cohan, had got nowhere. Cohan let C.U. dramatize his life for nothing...
...Minsky, with touches of Snow-Bound and Tosca. Hope and Crosby are confidence men. Setting off for Alaska by ship, they accidentally toss their bankroll out of a porthole. Forced to scrub decks and clean cabins for their passage, they nevertheless arrive in port possessors of a map disclosing a hidden gold mine. The rest of the action takes place for the most part amid deep drifts of Hollywood snow (shaved ice and raw white corn flakes), as Hope and Crosby, assisted by a talking fish, a talking bear, a dynamite-carrying dog and Santa Claus and his reindeer, mush...
...Special came, 85 Simmians were at the depot. All along the line others waited. At level crossings the Special wheezed to a stop, picked up sleighfuls of eager farm folk. It all got so confusing that a railway official laboriously marked the crossings on a map so that the engineer would know where to stop on the way home...