Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bearded, scholarly Cyril, who came from Cairo's St. Anthony Monastery. He crowned Haile Selassie in 1928, has spiritual rule over 4,000,000 Ethiopian Copts. At royal worship in Addis Ababa's octagonal Cathedral of St. George, the Emperor kisses the Egyptian's silk-draped silver cross. But the Abuna continually vexes the King of Kings and the proud Ethiopian court: he offends the country's growing nationalism. Ethiopians complain that he will not learn the Ethiopian dialects, makes no effort to understand the Ethiopian way of life...
...93rd learned fast. They were resourceful. Corporal Lemon Hicks of Silver City, Miss, and four buddies got lost behind enemy lines. When they blundered into a command post they picked off one Jap, melted back into the thick and steaming underbrush. They ran into a Jap minefield and methodically picked their way through it. They located their own lines by the sound of distant artillery, finally crossed safely back. Said Lemon: "All of us prayed...
...terrific character. Frederick Schiller Faust, 51, was serving as correspondent for Harper's. But "Heinie" Faust was, more notably, the incredibly prolific "King of the Pulps" who wrote westerns, romances, whodunits and cinema stories under the pseudonyms Max Brand, David Manning, George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, Nicholas Silver, Hugh Owen, Frank Austin, George Challis, Walter C. Butler, John Frederick, Peter Henry Moreland, Lee Bolt, Dennis Lawton, Frederick Frost. Among his creations were Hollywood's Drs. Kildare and Gillespie, Horseman Destry, Secret Agent Anthony Hamilton, Silvertip the Outlaw...
...practically out of this world-it took nearly three months for the full story to reach the U.S. Present at the enthronement was the Rev. Victor Guy Plymire, a longtime American missionary. After patiently waiting through eight hours of ceremony and gift-giving (the presents ranged from precious silver ornaments to a sheep stomach filled with butter), Missionary Plymire was finally permitted to take a picture (see cut) of the new Lama, six-year-old Tuteng Tueh...
...hoped to make a quick war, followed by a lasting peace. But overnight, fat King Philip V discovered that he liked playing soldiers even better than playing husband, insisted on leading the Spanish armies into battle. From Paris, Queen Elisabeth ordered a snappy military suit of blue and silver (fighting was suspended while the new costume was passed through the hostile lines to her under a flag of truce), charged at the head of the troops with her quixotic husband. Patrols-under strict orders to avoid "all unnecessary embarrassments"-had a hard time to keep from capturing the royal pair...