Word: minas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...homespun anthologies; Jack Belden's frank, often bitter Still Time to Die; Target: Germany, the admirable, official story of the Eighth U.S.A.A.F. ; Captain Herbert L. Merillat's detailed report of the battle for Guadalcanal, The Island; Charles Wertenbaker's Invasion! For warmly personal reasons, Mina Curtiss' Letters Home, 254 samples of the billions of letters that U.S. service men have written home since they went to war, became a public favorite...
LETTERS HOME-Arranged and edited by Mina Curtiss-Little, Brown...
...spring of 1942 Mrs. Mina Curtiss was in Iowa, conducting a radio program and driving around the state to find out how the families of soldiers & sailors felt about the war. When she read a shoe-box full of letters a soldier had written his mother, she "decided that there were neighbors all over the United States who not only would want to read letters from their own sons and husbands but who would be hungry, as I was, for every bit of firsthand information they could get about the lives of our men overseas." From all over...
Listen is the idea of Mrs. Mina Curtiss, associate professor of English at Smith College and author of an Atlantic Monthly novel, The Midst of Life. Unable to convince Washington officials that the people are more interested in themselves than in Hollywood productions about them, Mrs. Curtiss bought guidebooks to the Midwest, noted that Iowa has the highest literacy rate in the U.S. and the tenth largest representation in the Navy. In two weeks, she sold her idea to Gardner Cowles Jr., who is not only publisher of the Des Moines Register and Tribune and of Look, but also owner...
...Died. Mina Stinson Crandon, 53, better known as "Margery" the medium whose claims of psychic communication with the dead raised serious controversy from 1924 to 1935; in Boston. Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed in her; Harry Houdini offered $5,000 to charity if she produced any "manifestations" which he could not duplicate. Charity never got the money. Before Houdini died in 1926 he said he would communicate with the living after his death if he could, and Magician Joseph M. Dunninger awaited a "message" on every anniversary of his death. "Margery" died the day after the 15th...