Word: millers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...built by Capitalist Pratt's third son, George Dupont Pratt, well-known conservationist, Boy Scout sponsor, big-game hunter and collector of relics of early civilization. When the master died in 1935, Killenworth fell on hard times, eventually went on sale for taxes. In 1944 the Miller Manufacturing Co., local trunk makers, took it over as an administrative headquarters. Last week Miller & Co. sold Killenworth to Stalin...
Samuel Howard Miller...
...more she pondered the fate of her native Tyrol, the more Miss Frankie Miller worried. Finally she sat down and wrote Britain's Foreign Minister a letter about it. Instead of mailing the letter, she took it to the New York Times, paid $693 to have it printed last week as an ad. Said Frankie Miller to Ernie Bevin: "Humbly I beg your Excellency to have the [liberation] of South Tyrol brought before the UNO. ... I also challenge the zone occupation of Austria...
...latter-day Joe Miller, Publisher Bennett (Random House) Cerf modestly styles himself "a regular incubator for anecdotes and witty quips." While incubating his hugely successful (600,000 copies) Try and Stop Me, Cerf went gag-gathering to magazine files, the radio, and his friends, ''devoured reams of columns" by Manhattan gossips...
...American living in France since seven years, the most interesting fact in your review of Henry Miller's book about the States, An Air-Conditioned Nightmare [TIME, Dec. 24], is the lightly touched point that Author Miller left Europe as soon as the going grew hard in 1940. As he had been settled in Paris since ten years "to study vice," while he "worked at panhandling and slept on park benches," we wish only that he had stayed in Europe for five years more...