Word: newe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sherman Douglas, pretty, 21-year-old daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James's, had arrived at a universal truth as she flew into New York with her grandmother to spend the Christmas holidays in the U.S. Asked if she preferred Englishmen to American men, she said thoughtfully: "Men are men, no matter where they...
Less than a month after his re-election to one of the country's toughest jobs-mayor of New York-hard-working, onetime city cop William O'Dwyer, 59, was ordered by his doctors to Bellevue Hospital with "almost complete nervous and physical exhaustion." One indication that he was really relaxing: when a small fire in his kitchenette brought 22 firemen and a police detail swarming to his hospital suite, Hizzoner slept through...
...eyed Fred Allen, taking a year's vacation from radio, told New York Herald Tribune Columnist John Crosby how it feels to be an "unemployed actor": "It's wonderful, this freedom. You can live on the money you save on aspirin. The only trouble is, I keep thinking of jokes and I don't know what to do with them." As for TV, Allen found it "too graphic. In radio, even a moron could visualize things his way; an intelligent man, his way. It was a custom-made suit. Television is a ready-made suit. Everyone...
...glamour team could make his starting eleven. They were 1948 National Football League champions and are well on their way to repeating this season. This week, with a record of nine wins and one defeat, Greasy's nifty Eagles squared off against an old and bitter foe, the New York Giants...
...nearer 34, handled the ball as deftly as a shell-game operator at a county fair. An old halfback from L.S.U., 2O5-lb. Steve Van Buren, slithered past Giant tacklers for 53 yards to break his own league record for ground gained in a single season (his new mark: 1,050 yards). The Eagles cut the Giants down to size...