Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believed in training youth. When Martha Berry, the famed Southern educator, asked him to contribute to her schools for Georgia mountain children (the story went), he sent her $1 with which she bought peanut seed, making a profit on the crop. Afterwards he built a Gothic quadrangle for her school, spending millions. He loved and collected the relics of the old, slow age which he had destroyed. In his Greenfield Village near Dearborn, he lovingly set up Abraham Lincoln's courthouse and the Menlo Park workshop of his hero, Thomas Edison. He filled his museum with stage coaches, buggies...
...Helen Hayes, for "the outstanding performance by an American actress on the current New York stage [Happy Birthday']" went the annual Barter Theater Award-"one Virginia ham and a platter to eat it off of; one acre of land on the side of a mountain near Abingdon [Va.]." To Actress Jinx Falkenburg, from some 50,000 admiring beauticians in convention in Manhattan, went the title, America's No. 1 Brunette. Actress Rita Hayworth (who used to be a redhead, and before that a brunette) was chosen No. 1 Blonde, and Actress Evelyn Keyes (who used...
...newspaper reporter: "As baseball commissioner I'm compelled to spend the winters in Florida and attend baseball games during the summer. If there is a better job than that, I don't know about it." That was not the way his stern old predecessor Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis regarded the job. But the baseball owners had carefully picked Happy because he was no Landis. Said Timesman Daley: "Maybe this makes Chandler tougher than Landis. But I doubt it. Landis was always tough in an intelligent fashion...
...A.G.R.S. recovery teams soon found that they had to become rivermen, mountain climbers, explorers, bush diplomats and detectives. A.G.R.S. men, almost one-third of them Chinese-Americans, went out in groups of from three to ten. They traveled by jeep, mule, native pony, oxcart, sampan or on foot, were almost always supplied by air. Some of them headed west of Chungking toward Tibet, and into mountain country which no white man had ever explored. Others battled leech-ridden jungles and flooded rivers; one group swam a swollen stream to find the bodies of a B-29 crew, swam back, pushing...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). An All-Russian program: Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony, a Tchaikovsky song, Solitude, and excerpts from Stravinsky's Fire Bird. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...