Word: p
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vacationers last week were given an ugly warning to take their gas masks with them to the sea shore. But Bulldog Spirit can bring a bit of beautification even to A. R. P., as Mr. C. W. Milsom of Barnsbury, London, has demonstrated. Mr. Milsom, a backyard esthete, has prettied up the corrugated iron bomb shelter lent him (rent free) by the Government. The shelter's roof has been converted into a rock garden, a horseshoe ornaments the entrance, Christmas tree lights are strung inside. Presumably the rococo goldfish tank on the roof will be taken inside in case...
...lucky thing for anthropology that Dr. Ales Hrdlicka (pronounced ah-leesh hurd-leech-ka), famed fossil man of the Smithsonian Institution, was in Moscow last week. A young Soviet archeologist named A. P. Okladnikoff announced the discovery of a fossilized Neanderthal skeleton on a high cliff in "Middle Asia." The bones were those of a child eight or nine years...
...turned out to be the long-lost daughter of a British noble, and for whose affections a British officer and an Indian chief vied. The Minute Men of 1774-5, was first of a series of nine America's Lost Plays which NBC is putting on (Thursdays, 9 p. m. E. D. S. T.) as "prestige programs" this summer, at a cost of from $1,000 to $2,000 a week...
Last week CBS's best "prestige program," Columbia Workshop, celebrated its third birthday on the air by inaugurating a Festival (Thursdays, 10 p. m. E. D. S. T.) of 13 broadcasts. Eight are the pick of the 140 radio plays the Workshop has done since its beginning. Five are new ones, among them plays by Dorothy Parker, Lord Dunsany, William Saroyan...
...actual story of such a contest, see P...