Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's saga of planewreck in the South Pacific had publicized Scripture as a comfort for castaways, the Bible Society offered to furnish them to all rafts and lifeboats, complete with waterproof covers. War Shipping Administration, Army and Navy gladly accepted. By last week 21,000 New Testaments had been installed. Ten thousand more were awaiting assignment. Cost (from society's funds...
...five-a-week masterwork (now on CBS, Mon.-Fri., 1:45-2 p.m., E.W.T.) for Procter & Gamble. It has been hard work, paid for by $5,000 a week. Mrs. Berg, who started at $50 a week, also produces, directs and plays the leading lady (Molly) of her Goldberg saga. Now 42 and a millionairess, Mrs. Berg has a ten-room duplex in Manhattan, an estate in Bedford Hills...
...saga of our battle will be written in golden letters across the pages of history," they cried. "Ricken-backer had nothing...
...SAGA OF SAN DEMETRIO - F. Tennyson Jesse -Knopf...
...Saga of San Demetrio is a labor of patriotism by the grandniece of Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and the author of the remarkable psychological study A Pin to See the Peepshow. Rather touchingly old-fashioned in its style, it is marred by such phrases as "the simple faith of sailormen" and "these unalterable British!" It suffers, inevitably, from being told at secondhand. But it is an honorable and exciting account of an exceedingly honorable, exciting-and true-event...