Word: rovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew out of the case of Owen Lattimore, who once exerted much influence on American policies in China and who has since been accused of promoting Communism. Last year Judge Youngdahl dismissed four perjury indictments against Lattimore. Last week, with new indictments coming up for trial, U.S. Attorney Leo Rover looked Judge Youngdahl in the eye and dramatically intoned: "I ask you under the law ... to withdraw from the case...
...doing assorted party propaganda jobs, watching the Reichstag fire and the Soviet purges from afar, living in cheap hotels, and writing his first novel (a story about collectivism in a children's home, from which Koestler now prints excerpts for the first time; it sounds somewhat like The Rover Boys as rewritten by Howard Fast). He also found time, as "Dr. A. Costler." to write a potboiling Encyclopedia of Sexual Knowledge, and to pay some attention to the neurotic women's auxiliaries of the class-war army...
Davy wanted more than anything in the world was a dog-like one Harry had once known called Rover. But when they asked grandfather to get one he only laughed harshly and said...
Davy was delighted to have something to play with. He whistled to the baby, and never tired of inspecting it. "You got some good fat on you, baby," he said. Harry named the baby Edward, "after the King," but Davy called it Rover...
...Swift Jr., the new author is listed as Victor Appleton II. What the older generation of readers never knew was that there never was a Victor Appleton, nor is there one now. The old Tom series was the product of the same writing factory that also churned out The Rover Boys, today produces, in addition to the new Tom, such solid moneymakers as The Bobbsey Twins and the Nancy Drew books. Originator of the assembly-line idea was an immigrant German organist's son named Edward Stratemeyer, who, before his death in 1930, fed a whole stable of writers...