Word: muir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salt Lake City Tribune's first woman reporter, redheaded Florabel Muir wanted to become the first woman to cover an execution. Utah law said executions could be witnessed only by men. Florabel dickered, fumed, finally got the State Attorney General to rule that she was a reporter, not a female...
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, commander of the British ground forces in Europe, reached up and added a bar to the D.S.O. of Major General Colin Muir Barber, leader of the 18th (Scottish) Division and tallest British Army General...
...fellow craftsmen who know him consider him the most skilled practitioner of a most difficult kind of book reviewing. Critic Van Wyck Brooks, when he edited the Freeman, said that Lisle Bell had invented a new form, ranked him with highbrow Scottish Critic Edwin Muir. Poet Marianne Moore, who edited the Dial's brief booknotes for the ten years Bell contributed, called one cluster of his reviews the best thing she had seen. The reason why Reviewer Bell has never received recognition for his services to U.S. letters: his 17,000 reviews have been written as a sideline, while...
Blue-eyed, thirtyish Jean Muir used to write club and society notes, found them "so much drip." Nineteen months ago she asked for and got another assignment: writing about the 125,000 workers who make her native Portland one of the shipbuildingest centers of the U.S. Her "By the Ways" column is crammed with names of men & women pipe fitters, torch-scissorers, crane wanglers, and with what they...
...Muir technique ignores Henry Kaiser and other bigwigs. Instead, she runs such shipyard society notes as a swap offer found on the wall of a dock men's room: "One wedding ring (unused) for a pair of boxing gloves." It was Jean Muir who discovered the swarming Braukmiller family-15 members working in the yards and averaging $996 a week (TIME, July 26). A national contest of welderettes was partly her doing...