Word: neb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Massive, mustachioed, cigar-chomping Roscoe Pound was the precocious son of a local judge in Lincoln, Neb. "My blamed memory," he used to say. was so photographic that as a boy he broke up Sunday school classes by rattling off a chapter of the Bible after only one reading. At 12, he entered the University of Nebraska, at 17, emerged as a first-rate botanist, and between studying and practicing the law, he found time to earn a Ph.D. in botany and direct a botanical survey of Nebraska, which now boasts a rare lichen called roscopoundia...
Cotton (N.H.) Jordan (Idaho) Curtis (Neb.) Mechem (N.Mex.) Dominick (Colo.) Smith (Me.) Hickenlooper (Iowa) J .J. Williams (Del.) Hruska (Neb.) M.R. Young...
...Hamp was at Manhattan's Café Metropole, where the band is strung out behind the bar like a police lineup. Woody and his men were trudging through the sticks playing just the kind of one-nighters that build character and make big bands dear to novelists: Columbus, Neb., to Grand Island, Neb.; Grand Island to Fort Riley, Kans.; Fort Riley to Pryor, Okla...
Daughter of a railway mail clerk, Sandy was born in Hastings, Neb., and raised in Kenesaw and Lincoln. After a short flirtation with college life, she left for New York, where she took a cold-water flat in the Village and enrolled in Herbert Berghofs acting school. Here is where the hat-check part usually comes in, and the feet graped with blisters, but not for Sandy. She had been in Manhattan only a few months when an off-Broadway producer stopped her on the street, asked if she was an actress, then said he wanted her to read...
...earned from short selling barrels of pork in the Civil War, helped make Chicago the hog butcher for the world. Big-city slaughterhouses, geared to seasonal rushes and stretches of idleness, have been replaced by busy little "country" abattoirs closer to such cattle towns as West Point, Neb., and Worthington, Minn. Meanwhile, since supermarkets buy out of Chicago and a few large centers, Armour has steadily closed down a quarter of the distributing plants that it once needed across the U.S. to serve 250,000 corner groceries. With farmers finding increasingly better ways to raise meat animals, Armour...