Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State Dean Acheson was spending a quiet Sunday puttering around his Maryland farm when he first learned of the "peace offer" from Moscow. Joseph Stalin had dug into his mail sack of questions indefatigably asked by U.S. news correspondents. He picked out a tempting set sent in by I.N.S. Correspondent J. Kingsbury Smith, representing William Randolph Hearst. As a result, Hearstling Smith had a news beat, and Stalin had a good propaganda story circulated for him by the free U.S. press...
...remained for Paul Sack '48 to defeat the commercialism in the Valentine field. Sack, simple and primitive at heart, will present his would-be mato with a 200-pound granite tombstone with the words "To my Valentine, Paul" engraved...
Cigars, Pecans. Some of his callers left gifts: a box of Philippine cigars (though Harry Truman does not smoke), a 10-lb. sack of pecans from a Louisiana Congressman (to remind him that there was an overproduction problem in pecans), a pair of engraved brass spurs (from the citizens of Monahans, Tex.). More were looking for presidential favors: Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall (a job for a friend), Philadelphia Realtor Albert Greenfield (a speech date), San Diego Journal Editor John Kennedy (a veterans' hospital...
...Akron, an 80-year-old recluse named Frances Louise Butler died, leaving in her hotel room a hoard of $300,000 in Government bonds wrapped up in old newspapers, and a "small fortune" in diamonds, rubies and pearls in a sugar sack. A man who came to the funeral remembered one thing about her: she had sung Oh Promise Me at the bier of President McKinley...
Retiring executives are Selig S. Harrison '48, President: William S. Fairfield '49, Managing Editor; Paul Sack '48, Business Manager; Joel Raphaelson '49, Editorial Chairman; Burton S. Gliun '46, Photographic Chairman: George G. Daniels '48, Associate Managing Editor; Thomas C. Simons '50, Advertising Manager; Stephen N. Cady '48, Sports Editor...