Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line" and, regarding the job's conditions as comparable in strain to the loneliness and frustration on a lightship, changed the consulate's staff every six months to be sure nobody buckled under. Consul Lyon, married in the U.S. last June, had assumed his post but two days before the order came to close...
Last winter Colonel James Coward, Air Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Bagdad, took off from Frankfurt in a C-47 to fly back to his post. Aboard were three crew members and two boxer dogs that Coward had bought. Coward wanted to refuel in Athens, but the field was fogged in. Istanbul and Ankara, when he approached, were also fogged in. His gas gone, he set the plane's automatic pilot and bailed out with his crew. Lacking parachutes for the dogs, he left them in the plane...
When the Saturday Evening Post learned that Collier's had signed up the star coaches, it angrily tore up its own contract with the Football Coaches' Association, which had picked the Post's All-Americas. This week, while the Post looked for substitutes, Collier's calmly prepared to add the association to its list of pickers. Even without Granny Rice's autograph on it, Collier's appeared to have recovered the ball...
...South, not a single newspaper ran the angry series that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Reporter Ray Sprigle wrote after four weeks of touring the "Land of Jim Crow." Admittedly onesided, his stories of segregation, discrimination and degradation (TIME, Aug. 16) made the South look bad. Last week, the South's side was heard from. Many Southern papers which did not print Sprigle found space to print a Northern Negro publisher's account of his own untroubled tour. And many more were likely to print a rebuttal to Sprigle by Hodding Carter, the able Mississippi editor...
Last week the boss, signing herself "Co-Publisher and Co-Editor," took Ted Thackrey's space to tell readers that her husband had been speaking only for himself, "not committing the Post Home News* to the support ... of Henry A. Wallace." And so far as sincere and reasoned grounds were concerned, "I, a sincere liberal, take issue with Mr. Thackrey's reasoning . . . 1) because Mr. Wallace's own position is not always clear and because he, himself, does not always give the impression of being a sincere and reasoned person ... 2) the Progressive Party is Communist-dominated...