Word: ran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conviction of the cabbie who ran down and killed Margaret Mitchell [TIME, Aug. 22] will not bring her back, or save the lives of others...
Unemotional Editor McGill ran the Pegler column in its usual space, appended a tolerant editorial note: "We often get a bang out of some of Mr. Pegler's strange obsessions . . . Somehow it was not at all surprising to find him . . . using [Miss Mitchell's] death as a vehicle for rebuking the Roosevelts. We knew [her] well enough to know she made up her own mind . . . Certainly she would not [have been] swayed by the influence of an unwise, emotional Westbrook Pegler, an insensate Roosevelt-hater, whose column [may] have swayed and-deprived inferior minds...
...curtain mercifully fell on the hammed-up Hamlet, a voice from the balcony yelled: "Author, author!" A stir ran through the audience aboard Cap'n J. W. (Bill) Menke's Goldenrod, last of the Mississippi's showboats, and up to the footlights stepped one of William Shakespeare's belated collaborators, Cap'n Billy Bryant, onetime showboat king of the Ohio. Hollered the voice: "Shoot him dead...
...Question of Gregory, Author Elizabeth Janeway (The Walsh Girls, Daisy Kenyan) tries hard but unconvincingly to show just what her protoplasmic hero would do after that. First John got suddenly drunk in his office. When he sobered up, he withdrew what money he had from the bank and ran out on his wife and on his job in the Department of Public Information. Apparently, all Gregory needed was a chance to stand on his own feet for a while. Jobs as a mechanic in Vermont and Detroit and a brief love affair with his ex-secretary in Washington soon...
...land that brown-skinned young Carlos Morelos grew up in, and where he learned about the simple duties man owes to man, of Chan, the Nacheetls' God of the Universe, and of Jesucristo Salvador too. But when he left his village and moved to the capital, Carlos ran up against a lot of other matters, and almost all at once. There were such puzzling things as the political democracy of John Locke, the Marxian dialectic and the news (slightly belated) of the atomic bomb. Author North seems to think that it could happen that way almost anywhere in Central...