Word: misteres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duke of Windsor's farm near High River, Alberta, still awaited him after five years, but neighboring Albertans didn't care if he never came back. Roving Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt prodded the natives about the Duke, reported some shocking responses: "Who's he, mister?" "No one in Canada in their right mind has had anything decent to say about him as long as I can remember...
...MISTER ROBERTS (221 pp.)-Thomas Heggen-Hough+on Mlfflin...
...other episodes in Mister Roberts are just as simple-a quarrel between two roommates, the achievement of gonorrhea by a seaman at an apparently barren island-but they are told with aptitude and humor. Author Heggen, 27, who now writes for the Reader's Digest, served aboard an assault transport in the Pacific, at Guam, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, thereby seeing somewhat more action at sea than the Reluctant...
...Firozkhan Noon, chief collector of British honors among the Moslems (K.C.S.L, K.C.I.E., Hon. LL.D., Toronto, Honorary Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford), mounted the platform. "From now on," he proclaimed, "I am Mister Noon." (Cracked one Hindu columnist: "Twilight would have been a better word than noon...
...night last week the deputy sheriff opened the jail door, and told Roger that Mister Loy Harrison was there to fetch him. Roger's sister-in-law and her husband George Dorsey, just discharged after service overseas with the Army, both worked on Harrison's farm. At their urging ex-convict (bootlegging) Harrison had put up $600 bail to free Roger; the Dorseys and Roger's wife Dorothy were all waiting outside in the car. Mister Harrison would take care of everything...