Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last story, "We Can Go Home Now," is by William Parker, and an admirable complement of Mr. Nemerov's little tale of psychological melodrama it is. For Mr. Parker comes out in the open with melodrama that is above-board and does not hesitate to beat its chest. This is the story of an ugly party named Bert Coonrod who shoots one of his companions on a deer hunt not quite for the sheer pleasure of shooting him. Mr. Parker could do without the sections of italicized rumination of which he seems fond, and if he were handling other material...
From one recent food convoy speeding toward a bombed area in the north of England, said John Parker, secretary of the Labor Party's Food Committee, "a large proportion" of the trucks were spirited away, never reached their destination. Farmers in Kent and other rural districts patrol their fields at night with shotguns to keep mobsters from slaughtering their pigs and sheep, roaring away in high-powered cars with the carcasses...
...Morgan, Jr. Edith Winsor, WinsorCharles Morris Fran Gallagher, RegisMichael S. Olmstead Barbara Lotz, WellesleyBayard Osborn Mary-Edgar Reilly, Chapin School, N. Y.Frederic D. Powell Margaret Bacon, WellesleyWilliam Rich Mary-Ruth Gillispie, WellesleyHarold W. Smith Jean Drake, SmithJoseph Smith Jeanne Hoffman, Harrisburg, Penn.Thomas Stanton Virginia Vail, GarlandDonald Talmage Priscilla Parker, NewtonRichard Thayer Doris Scott, Katherine GibbsRobert Wilcox Betty McArthur, RadcliffeMOWER HALLPaul B. Akin Katherine Murphy, WellesleySheldon Berman Shirley Gordon, WellesleyL. Roydon Briggs, II Mary-Elizabeth Clark, WellestonWilliam B. Frymark Suzanne Foster, WellesleyThomas P. Mulkeen Robin Dennis, WellesleyJohn Pickering, Jr. Sarah Coughlan, VassarSTOUGHTON HALLRichard A. Beyer Pat Lord, WellesleyRobert G. Knight Katherine...
Baldish, greying, affable and modest Colonel Parker bosses an army of more than 1,400 subordinate engineers, some 9,200 construction workers. When he is not working in his map-and-chart-laden office, he travels over his huge project in a TVA plane. Says he: "We are able to get specialists in our organization and keep them, because of the nature of the work. We exchange ideas. We not only design our projects but we have our own force to construct them, so that there is co ordination...
Second, third, and fourth prizes of $25 each were awarded to Arthur G. Maling '44 of Chicago for his essay entitles "Let Us Live to Make Men Free--a Biography of Colonel Francis Wayward Parker," Kirby M. Milton '44 of St. Joseph, Michigan for his 'The Turbulent Thirties," and Philip H. Russell, Jr. '44 of Hamden, Connecticut, for "Two Economists of Yale...