Word: montes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chill, grey dawn, near Malta, Mont., some 250 people waited nervously. John Q. Stewart, Princeton astronomer, and General Electric's James Stokley, old hands who had worked on three previous eclipses, frowned blackly at the cloud-covered eastern sky. They had rehearsed for weeks for this event. They had taken a Lloyds insurance policy against the disaster of a cloudy day. They and their 60 assistants (including famed Princeton Physicist Ira Freeman and his wife), were primed with cameras, light meters, other eclipse-recording paraphernalia...
OPAngler. In Miles City, Mont., des perate Fisherman Frank Spears finally put a red ration token on his hook, presently caught a sucker...
...There is no substitute for experience, and in radio's present phase, comedians who have laid eggs in Waterbury and stolen bows in Bozeman, Mont, are best equipped to survive. . . . When you are ill, you certainly won't call in a doctor who still has the price tag dangling on his stethoscope...
Perfect Matches. In Washington, Elizabeth Bliss married a Lieut. Divine. In Bozeman, Mont., a marriage license was issued to Charles Wheat and Agnes Cotton. In Coronado, Calif., one Dorothy Dix was wed to a Lieut. Danny Deaver...
Kirsten Flagstad, 49, whose famed Wagnerian ho-yo-to-hos have not resounded in the Metropolitan Opera since she joined her husband in Nazi-held Norway four years ago, planned to return to the U.S. "to see my daughter [by a previous marriage - Mrs. Elsa Dusenberry of Bozeman, Mont.] if not to sing." Flagstad managed to keep herself politically neutral by refusing to sing for Nazi audiences, but her wealthy quisling husband, Henry Johansen, was less successful: his one-week imprisonment in a Gestapo concentration camp last February was described by Norwegian patriots as a "face-saving maneuver," during which...