Word: pocatello
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leonard Lyons for a day, managed to fill a column despite a handicap. "To write a gossip column," he explained, "you have to be up and about among lively company. But I have been stuck in Washington for almost two years now and . . . talk is much more interesting in Pocatello...
...common traits, to which all kinds of uncommon things happen. Morse says he got the idea for One Man's Family from reading Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga. Family is as prettied-up a picture of American life as the neat colonial homes in the ads. A Pocatello, Idaho judge has described the program as "the pillar of the American way of life." It has been a pillar to Carlton Morse too, bringing him more than 20 radio awards of high & low value, and grossing an estimated...
Cache. In Pocatello, Idaho, police investigating a pool-hall theft noticed a suspicious bulge on Cecil Jones's face, forced open his mouth, extracted fourteen $20 bills...
Footnote. In Pocatello, Idaho, postal authorities mulled over the weight ceiling which forbade mailing his new size 15 brogans to Marine Pfc. Lawrence I. Hanson, somewhere in the Pacific (TIME, April 24). Wrote an impatient woman: "Did you ever think of sending each shoe in a separate parcel...
...Army proved at Naples that its new DDT (real name censored) delousing powder is the best typhus-preventive yet discovered, better than steam or typhus vaccine. Colonel William E. Stone of Pocatello, Idaho, one of the men who helped develop it, said that DDT may put an end to insect-borne diseases. Altogether, 1,300,000 people were dusted in Naples...