Word: ola
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ola Elizabeth Winslow's Jonathan Edwards (Macmillan; $3.50) is what right-minded citizens expect of Pulitzer committees: a solid, sound and informative book, neither exciting nor stodgy. When Preacher Edwards preached hellfire he meant real fire. He lifted the scalps of his Northampton congregation by asking them to imagine first their little fingers dipped in the burning lake, then their hands, arms, whole bodies. He tackled the knotty complexities of doctrine with equal vigor. Biographer Winslow, who is chairman of the English department at Goucher College, pictures him as a man with a new vision unfortunately enmeshed in obsolescent...
...columns on scandals in U.S. organized labor; Chicago Times Cartoonist Jacob Burck for his cartoon "If I Should Die Before I Wake," depicting a child praying in a bomb-shattered room; 53-year-old former College Professor Leonard Bacon, for his book of verse Sunderland Capture; Biographer Ola Elizabeth Winslow for her Jonathan Edwards; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for its campaign against smoke nuisance in St. Louis. To the New York Times went a special citation for "the public educational value of its foreign-news reports...
Since, as one of Chicago's Mills brothers says, "the idea is older than God," the Mills-Roosevelt peep show is not basically patented, will have competition. Ten similar projects are under way, although the big coin-machine makers (Wurlitzer, Rock-Ola, Seeburg) have not declared their intentions...
...last month the Falange Española's newsorgan Arriba whipped out a jingo editorial announcing that Spain was no longer neutral but nonbelligerent. A few days later Generalissimo Francisco Franco officially embraced this policy, laid claim to Gibraltar and an unspecified piece of North Africa. Last week Arriba again applied the point of a pin to El Caudillo's chubby behind. Producing a brand-new term to baffle international lawyers, Arriba declared that Spain was now a "moral belligerent...
...determines what Spaniards learn. He controls the police and so determines who shall live free or in prison. He heads the Ministry of Government (Interior), which now includes the Ministry of Communications, and so controls the post office, telephone, telegraph and cable systems. He heads the Falange Española Tradicionalista and so bosses Spain's sole political party, its 2,000,000 members, 800,000 associated female Falangistas and 600,000 Falange youths...