Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France's nimble Georges Bidault, whom Molotov tried hardest to woo, tore into Russia's plan for an "us Europeans" pact that would shove the U.S. out of Europe, and leave all of Russia in. Snapped Bidault: "Lake Baikal and Vladivostok are no more European than the Mississippi and Chicago...
Like Democratic nominees in Mississippi, Kuomintang nominees on Formosa are sure to be elected. Last week, on restless, frustrated Formosa, 32 members of the Kuomintang's Central Committee were gathered to choose nominees for the presidency and vice presidency of Nationalist China for the next six years. The men they chose would be certain winners in next month's elections...
...heyday, Max Bodenheim was one of the literary lions of the U.S. A native of Mississippi, he came to Chicago as a young man and for a time lit up the literary sky as the editorial partner of Ben Hecht. In the '20s, when he settled down in Greenwich Village, Max hit his bohemian crescendo. A lusty, limpidly handsome man. he attracted women by the scores (at least two of his castoff in amoratas committed suicide). By 1935, though, Bodenheim was no longer in vogue. Sales of his murky verse (Minna and Myself) and erotic novels (Replenishing Jessica) dwindled...
...Short Novels contains only four long stories, and it gets off to a shaky start. Ride Out, by Mississippi Novelist Shelby Foote, is actually an elongation of a Satevepost story about the tragic end of a dedicated Negro jazz trumpeter. Sincere, but derivative and commonplace, it probably should not have been included in the first place. But the other three provide a session of good reading for less than the price of a light breakfast...
Between the Senate Office Building and the Old House Office Building a reporter can take the pulse of Wyoming, check the price of Texas cattle, learn what is troubling Wisconsin's Menominee Indians, get background on Mississippi politics-all by spending enough time with the right people on Capitol Hill...