Word: quentin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three brothers died in uniform. Flyer Quentin was killed in World War I; Major Kermit died in Alaska in 1943; Brig. General Theodore Jr., in Normandy...
When husband Richard Peete got the news he committed suicide. (Her first husband had killed himself too, leaving her a widow in her teens.) In San Quentin and Tehachapi prisons Louise Peete was a model prisoner. After 18 years she was paroled. She went back to Los Angeles, got a job as housekeeper for one Jessie Marcy, 60. Mrs. Marcy died. Then she kept house for 70-year-old Emily D Dwight Latham, one of the probation officers who had helped her win her parole. Mrs. Latham died. Each time the police investigated. Each time the verdict was death from...
...drafting a revolutionary blueprint for the broken towns of western France. His colleague, Auguste Ferret, is directing 45 architects on the reconstruction of Le Havre. Their first project has already materialized-a new bourse (stock exchange), built in 60 days out of salvaged brick. Around Rouen and St. Quentin "youth teams" of the Ministry of Labor are learning the building trades, forming the nucleus of a French CCC. The Government also hopes for 300,000 to a million German (slave) laborers...
More to the point, because it was calmly sensible, was a joint statement by 16 foreign correspondents who have covered Russia at war, including Quentin Reynolds, John Hersey, Edgar Snow, Edmund Stevens. Said the 16: "None of us is satisfied with the limited facilities extended to reporters by the Soviet Government, and none denies the truth of certain statements in Mr. White's book [but] for the totality of its effect . . . we feel it contains far too many inaccuracies ... a highly biased and misleading report." Eric Johnston, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who had taken White...
Celebrities at the Stork. One day her father's old friend, Quentin Reynolds, almost the only friend she had in New York then, took her to a 53rd Street bistro just coming into vogue, the Stork Club. There, while Reynolds waited for a friend, Anita haltingly sipped an orangeade. The people she met were all fond of Bud Counihan; they found it, now, remarkably easy to be fond of his girl Anita. In a matter of weeks her friends had increased from one to 201; in a matter of months, Bud's beautiful daughter was the toast...