Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A hunter's stray bullet forced down Hollywood Hero Jon Hall's private plane, and Hall rose to the occasion. The bullet had just missed him, he told the breathless press. "You'd think the war was still on," he added.* With him, said Hall, was his...
No Flowers, Please. After five months as assistant city editor, Aggie had beaten down most of the local staff's prejudices against women editors; in spite of her job* the staff liked her. Said Rewriteman Bill Kennedy, after Aggie Underwood took over the city desk as its boss last...
For the occasion Berlioz, a Paul Bunyan of music, hired a military band of 200, added 80 strings and a chorus of 200.* But his stirring symphony could barely be heard in the square. Wrote he: "The final blow came when the troops of the National Guard began to march...
Once Smoky tried to telephone Chiang Kaishek; on another occasion he tried to talk to Manuel Avila Camacho, then President of Mexico. Last week Smoky got the urge again, picked up the phone in his Oelwein, Iowa hotel, and said: "Get me the Kremlin in Moscow." Four hours later, on...
* One notable absentee: the President's host, Viscount Alexander. Not even for such an occasion as this could the House of Commons allow a king or his viceroy in its hall.