Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the past week, PBH and Student Council collectors have been canvassing the College asking for books to send to European colleges and universities. But a number of books still sit on dusty shelves without the redeeming promise of future use either here or abroad. The easy going "I'll look around and see," "Wait until after generals," or "Central Europe is a lost cause anyway" characterize the comments from those who just do not want to bother to inventory their bookeases. Realizing that the 'Apathy' symphony has been played until undergraduate cardrums ache; collectors hesitate to point...
...interview added two footnotes to presidential history. The first was Harry Truman's answer to Russian protests after Winston Churchill's historic speech at Fulton, Mo. The President, said Nover, sat down and penned a personal note to Stalin with his own hand. He offered to send the battleship Missouri to bring Stalin to the U.S., promised to accompany him to the University of Missouri at Columbia (20 miles from Fulton) for "exactly the same kind of reception, the same opportunity to speak his mind." Stalin's answer, as usual: "Nyet...
...swallowed her wrath, telegraphed: "Dear Miss Liu. . . . In a letter you sent me some time ago you wrote: 'In democratic politics election means competition. How senseless it would be otherwise! In American presidential campaigns . . . no one gives up the competition in fear of defeat. ... He who loses always sends a message of congratulations to the winner.' Now that we are on the path of democratic constitutionalism . . . I send you my respectful congratulations...
Last week, with his first steady piano-playing job in 30 years, Jimmy Yancey, a month shy of 50 and all but seven teeth gone, was happy among the pink lights and mirrors. His salary is the union wage -$87.50 a week; but sometimes customers send up a free drink to him, and he thanks them kindly for it. Jimmy hopes to keep right on playing "as long as they want me." He doesn't mind what he has missed. "I'm doin' fine," says he in his slow, lazy way. "At the old bear trap they...
...named Frank Wiggins, who started the promotion of the city in 1893 with a life-sized elephant made of California walnuts. The elephant made such a hit at the World's Fair in Chicago that Wiggins, as superintendent of exhibits for the budding Chamber, made another one to send around the country...