Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cruel & Unusual. In Omaha, Grocer Amil Martin explained how he had dealt with an armed hold-up man: "I began sacking groceries and just ignored him." The thug finally gave up, said "Okay, Mac, you win," went away emptyhanded...
...letter published in the current issue of American Artist, he tried to say it in words as well. "It has always seemed to me," he began, "that the things man... builds are more of a picture of man than man himself." Trudging inland from Omaha Beach, Gleitsmann got his first look at the bombed-out ruins of Europe, and that somehow completed the picture. He was hit in the hip at the Rhine, rolled into a ditch begging for his lost sketching kit: "In my semiconsciousness it became an obsession . . . The [wounded] men near me-partly out of sympathy...
...hard to realize that only four months ago Harry Truman had addressed an auditorium full of empty seats at Omaha. As he walked out on the stage at Philadelphia's Convention Hall (capacity: 14,000) one night last week, the band pumped out Hail to the Chief, and 12,000 people yelled, whistled, clapped, and yipped out the familiar cry: "Give 'em hell, Harry...
...highlights was the beardy kisses of welcome that Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens gave him in the robing room before the opening service. In 1928, Oxnam became president of DePauw University in Indiana; in 1936, at 44, he was elected bishop-then Methodism's youngest-and assigned to the Omaha area...
...Methodist prelate, Oxnam has two unusual hobbies; the theater and art. He and his wife go to every play they can and have a good collection of paintings (mostly of the Barbizon school), including a Sargent and a Sir Joshua Reynolds: Girl with a Bird. When the mayor of Omaha tried to censor some profanity from the Lunt-Fontanne production of Idiot's Delight, Oxnam got him to drop the attempt, declaring: "Censorship is more dangerous than an occasional realistic line. If the mayor decides to remain in politics, may I suggest a theme song for his coming campaign...