Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carl Milles has always preferred a studio. Born in Sweden, he started modeling early, baking his clay in his mother's oven and avoiding school as much as possible. His father began to think his delicate son was a dullard. "Send the boy to me. I'll make a man of him," a friend wrote the father. Milles set out, "but I stopped in Paris. I stopped in Paris forever. For six years, I didn't write home. I was excited about...
...drove all night to Chicago, shut out another team in twelve innings next day. Pitching for the Kansas City Monarchs in the 1942 Negro World Series, Showoff Satchel purposely passed a man to get Catcher Josh Gibson (Negro baseball's Babe Ruth) at bat, then forced him to send...
...when he was 17. For eleven years, he sold hardware-pickaxes and hammers, nails and hatchets-to get-rich-quick Leadville. Slowly and painstakingly, he built up his savings. Then he bought a cattle ranch and moved to Denver. He got to thinking it was foolish to send his cattle to Chicago to be butchered, established Denver's first packing plant (the Western Packing Co.). He got to looking at the vast, empty Colorado prairies. After a visit to Germany, he came back with a sack of beet-sugar seed. The beets flourished on the prairies, and he founded...
...Ferdinand, ruler for 31 years and royal exile for 30 more, to Gus Phillips (TIME, Feb. 24, 1941), a Falls City, Neb. railroad engineer, went a letter: "On account of my great age [87] and rather poor health, I am very glad and thankful when my dear overseas friends send a CARE package to me. Perhaps you also could help me by such a parcel." Gus, who once knew Ferdinand's railroad-crazy late son Boris (he once sent Boris a streamlined model electric train and got a diamond stickpin and 16 bottles of rare Bulgarian wine in return...
...which the Church of Rome will send an official "observer...