Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Paul Douglas is justified in attacking the "pork barrel," but he picked a poor example. "Dramatically he whipped out a Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass and mockingly searched over a map of Maine for the Josias River, which was listed in the bill for a $33,000 dredging project. He couldn't find it" [TIME...
While the jury stared at huge enlargements of the exhibits, Murphy read aloud, hour after hour, from State Department files. It was almost too much for theatrical, brush-browed Defense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker. Rolling a sympathetic eye toward the jury, he suggested that all the papers be put into evidence en masse-the defense, he said in his courtliest tones, would offer no objections at all if the Government wished to save time...
...Singer Paul Robeson, it was a busy week. Stepping off a plane in New York after a four-month tour of eight European countries, including a visit to the U.S.S.R., the burly baritone orated: "In Eastern democracies [i.e., the Soviet satellites] the people are happy and singing and are trying to build for peace-while I have to be met by a police squad*... an interesting welcome." As for Europe, "I found nothing but friendliness and good will for the workers and progressives in America." But "I found no liking for the Marshall Plan among the common people. I found...
...Science Illustrated had just put the August issue to bed last week and were hard at work on the September issue. In the midst of the job, they were summoned from their desks to the paneled board room of Manhattan's McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Announced Publisher Paul Montgomery: "I have a piece of bad news this morning." The news: there would not be any September issue-or any August issue, either, even though the presses were ready to roll. Without making a move to telegraph its knockout punch, McGraw-Hill had closed out the biggest, slickest and most...
Born. To Gregory Peck. 33, lanky cinemactor (Gentleman's Agreement, Duel in the Sun), and Greta Konen Peck, 32, onetime hairdresser to Actress Katharine Cornell: their third child, third son; in Los Angeles. Name: Carey Paul. Weight...