Word: r
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helped from the pulpit. Though he recuperated, he never let up, frequently ended services by saying: "If I am still here, I'll be with you next week." Once he asked an audience: "Are you scarred of death? I'm not. I'm looking for-r-ward to it-I can hardly wait." Last week, at 46, death came swiftly to Peter Marshall. Two days later, the last prayer he had written for the Senate was read aloud. ". . . Where we cannot convince, let us be willing to persuade, for small deeds done are better than great deeds...
Containing pictures of all first year men, with their home and College addresses, the volume has gone through an initial printing of 850 copies. "It is quite possible," editor Frank R. Gilbert said last night, "that demand will call for another printing...
Although Henning's Washington copy usually reflected the crotchets of Tribune Publisher Robert R. McCormick, no one ever accused Henning of deliberately angling a story. Said a fellow correspondent: "You have to give him credit for good faith. He actually believes the stuff he's writing, just as McCormick does...
When American Airlines Chairman C. R. Smith began dickering to sell his overseas subsidiary to Pan American Airways Corp., he did not mention it to American's president, Ralph S. Damon. Smith knew what Damon would say. Damon had been the most outspoken critic of Pan Am President Juan Trippe's version of the "chosen instrument" (one "community" line made up of several U.S. airlines) in U.S. international aviation...
...Manhattan last week, R. H. Macy & Co. was hawking an odd item-dish towels made of old flour bags. And they were selling at a furious clip (30,000 in ten shopping days). Sears, Roebuck & Co. was also advertising them in its new spring catalogue (and sales were brisk). In groceries, housewives were buying flour in 25-lb. bags that had sewn-in drawstrings; the buyer had only to unstitch a seam and she had a gaily printed cotton apron. Across the U.S., thousands of women, following instructions in special pattern books, were turning similar dress-printed bags into clothes...