Word: salem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy (a lawyer himself) ordered the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Tarawa to lie off Boston, open for inspection. The Post Office dedicated a new purple 3? stamp, depicting the scales of justice, the owl of wisdom, the mirror of truth. A historical society put on display the records of the Salem witch trials. And the Statler Hotel thoughtfully stocked its rooms with such legal bedtime stories as a Nero Wolfe mystery in which the senior partner of a law firm gets knocked off (Murder by the Book...
...warships-U.S., British, Israeli, Greek, French and Italian -sped to the rescue, while new but lesser tremors continued to shake the islands. Said the commander of the British destroyer Daring: "We could feel the ship shaking, as if distant depth charges were being dropped." The U.S. cruiser Salem, flagship of the Sixth Fleet, put a team of doctors and medical aides ashore. They reported: "The silence is broken only by the cries of the injured, and the crunch beneath the shoes of the stretcher bearers." Said Earl Mountbattan of Burma, NATO Mediterranean commander: "Cephalonia looks as if a giant...
Bill Howland was speaking with a veteran's authority of 38 years in the newsgathering business (Nashville Tennessean and Banner, Atlanta Journal, Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel). A New York State Yankee by birth and a graduate of Princeton, Howland has spent his professional life in the South. His first job was on the Nashville Tennessean, and he nearly lost it when he wrote a fantasy on what the monkeys in the zoo thought of William Jennings Bryan's role in the great evolution debate. He wrote the first story on the sensational attempt to rescue...
Venus had only a few champions. Architect Belluschi told Salem that she was "probably one of the greatest statues of the last 200 years." Said Museum Director Colt: She is "representative of woman as the mother of the race...
...anti-Venus uproar was too loud. Last week Salem heard that the committee had withdrawn their Venus before she even got to town. But Colt was still faithful: he hoped some rich patron would buy Salem's scorned Venus for Portland's museum, where, he was sure, her rich beauty would be appreciated...