Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neighbors remember Clifford as a shy boy with "a mass of golden ringlets," who sold Saturday Evening Posts and sang in the Episcopal choir. He was never any trouble. Like most good little boys, he suffered under the inevitable epithet of "sissy." At St. Louis' Washington University he played juvenile leads in college shows. His casting in these parts always caused lively competition from girls who wanted to play opposite him. Then, as now, he was 6 ft. 2 in., very symmetrical, with rippling, taffy-colored hair. He played tennis and sang baritone in the glee club. Toward...
When Athens newspapers blared forth the story of "mass kidnaping," some foreigners were skeptical, at first. But a sensitive Greek nerve was touched. Greeks never forget that for centuries the armies and government of their conquerors, the Turks, had been manned by children of Christian families, caught young and trained for their jobs...
...Springfield, Mass., Rabbi Samuel Price jolted his listeners on a Brotherhood Week program by suggesting an official "Week of Hate." Said he: "It would be much better to have the one week in 52 dedicated to hate, a week when we would all be able to get the hate out of our systems, treat one another as badly as we know how, and then observe the remaining 51 weeks as Brotherhood Weeks...
...their Rapunzel-haired poets together never spoke to an audience the size of his. And when he died last .week, the New York Times obit said of Philip Stack: "He was rated the leader in his art." It was a lowly art: he was the nameless mass-producer of saccharine sentiments on millions of greeting cards. For Walter Winchell's millions of readers he penned disillusioned doggerel under the pseudonym "Don Wahn." But his real name was familiar to the Esquire oglers who glanced at the jingles under Varga's flesh-tinted cuties...
Died. Major General Uzal Girard Ent, U.S.A. (ret.), 48, leader of the low-level mass bombing raid on the Ploesti oil refineries in 1943; after long illness; in Denver. Paralyzed from the waist down in a 1944 crash, he set an example for other paraplegics by ultimately learning to walk with braces...