Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FARTHEST REACH: OREGON AND WASHINGTON-Nancy Wilson Ross-Knopf...
...Nancy Wilson Ross, a native novelist and newspaperwoman, has pulled together some of the stories of these old-timers and woven them into a book of travels, essays and speculation about the Pacific Northwest. Much of what she writes is guidebook stuff-dutiful chapters on landscape, legends, and the myths of Paul Bunyan (who is by now one of the biggest bores in the whole bleak record of synthetic folklore). There is also a good map and 48 superb photographs. But Mrs. Ross's humor, sensitivity to the ways of a people whose pioneer forefathers are not all dead...
Hollywood, accustomed to the spotlight, was last week Xrayed. In the best book ever written about Hollywood.* Author Leo Calvin Rosten, 33, who also writes under the name of Leonard Q. Ross, and his staff of social scientists published the product of three years' work (financed by the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations...
Jason M. Rabinovitz '43, David S. Randolph '43, Robert G. Ravdin '43, Charles E. Reed, Jr. '43, Henry G. Reifsnyder, Jr. '42, Samuel B. Richardson '43, Walter F. Rogers, Jr. '43, Donald Ross...
Most popular thing in the show is a rambunctious parody of the MARCH OF TIME, written and narrated by Sergeant J. Ross Kearney, onetime Little Theater producer in Utah, and Corporal Saul Robbins, an ex-gagman and animator for Walt Disney. Sample scripting...