Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tribute. In Canberra, Australia, the Post Office happily produced a new stamp, in honor of Explorer John Shortland, unhappily discovered that the fine portrait on the stamp was of another Shortland...
...second season of the post-war rennaissance to about to get under way. We are waiting patiently and hopefully for the last wrinkles to be smoothed away...
Other sports were better able to make the transition from war to peace, although many faced particular problems of their own. Hockey, basketball, and baseball teams carried over many players from informal squads of 1945. The skaters, however, ran afoul of Yale and Dartmouth, two faster-developing post-war aggregations which they will have to be pointing for this winter, and the basketball and baseball squads had to become familiar with two new coaches...
...think they've had enough; that low-out orange one whose method of support is still uncertain . . . One thing bothers me; I didn't tell mama that these cocktail conglomerations are in men's ROOMS. I'm not sure that I understand THAT. I've boned up on Emily Post; but she doesn't mention such places...
HOUSE DIVIDED (1514 pp.)-Ben Ames Williams-Houghton Mifflin ($5). Ben Ames Williams made his reputation as a writer of brawny short stories, many of which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Like good hybrid corn, his yield has increased until it has overflowed into novels-novels that get bigger as Williams gets deeper into the American past. In Thread of Scarlet, he covered Nantucket Island during the War of 1812, in a mere 374 pages. Come Spring, a Revolutionary War novel, ran to 866 pages. His latest, House Divided, sprawls over fifteen hundred pages and four years of Confederate...