Word: rhone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show the right side of things, Grit has a staff of 22 headed by Editor Kenneth Dean Rhone, 50, a staffer for 26 years, who got his start, while a student at the University of Michigan, as "director of tourist publicity" for hometown Williamsport's Chamber of Commerce. Editor Rhone gets steady contributions from a corps of 100 part-time correspondents around the nation, carries weekly some $20,000 worth of ads. Grit comes out in three editions each week: city and area (40,000), state (112,000) and national (728,000). Subscriptions are almost all hustled...
Jean Berthier is the public prosecutor of the town of Bergerane. One hot Sun day he is lying on the bank of the Rhone River, his young fiancée asleep in his arms. Brilliantly successful at 30, he is a stiff and formal fellow who would feel embarrassed just to be caught in public with his jacket off. A young girl, evidently injured in a fall from her bike, comes limping down to the river's edge. When the girl stumbles and falls into a whirl pool, all of Jean Berthier's character flaws jump into action...
...letters are packed with humor, both conscious and unconscious. For a girl from New Orleans, Wolfe wrote a delightfully bawdy poem called A.D.-2024, and, flying up the Rhone Valley, he looked down from a height of 3,000 ft. and saw "a little moving dot in one of the fields shoveling manure: it looked so much like a critic that I have not wanted to finish my letter since." High comedy results from Wolfe's continual difficulties with he friends and relatives who considered hat he had behaved abominably in puting them in his books. After the publication...
...Susan B. lived it, they fought essentially similar enemies. To Gertrude, the commonplace was not necessarily banal; it had, rather, a universality which made it significant. Gertrude S.'s favorite course at Radcliffe, in those calm pre-General Education days, was in cloud formations. ("San Francisco and the Rhone Valley have the nicest clouds...
From the Basses-Pyrenees to the Haut-Rhin, from the Pas-de-Calais to the Bouches-du-Rhone, voters had good reason to think of Algeria: many of their sons and husbands are there. Unlike the war in Indo-China, where only volunteers were sent (many of them Germans in the Foreign Legion, or African Negroes), the police action in Algeria has been largely waged by French conscripts-reservists called back to the service, and draftees held overtime...