Word: slocum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trucking regulations were an awful blow to a pretty, 33-year-old redhead from Detroit named Helen Slocum. If no trucks can come home less than 75% loaded, what will happen to the specialized operators (beer, ice cream, etc.) whose equipment is designed for one-way delivery? Helen is such a case. Her specialty is so important that an exception may be made. An off-center Alger heroine, she delivers Navy boats...
Dolefully, in a smoke-filled, work-scarred room in downtown Manhattan, about 30 City Newsmen held their wake. Among them were oldtimers who had covered the Triangle Waist Co. fire in 1911, the Wall Street explosion in 1920, the General Slocum disaster in 1904. On the wall a sign read: Profanity is vulgar and offensive. Why not quit it? In her cashier's cage Anna Daly Sullivan, only woman on the staff, swore through her tears...
...dinner which will be held at the Harvard Club in Boston Saturday, Lewis Perry will act as toast master and speakers will include: John Livingston Lowes, Frances Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, emeritus, Roy E. Larsen, and John Slocum...
Engaged. Eileen S. S. Gillespie, 24, who six years ago without explanation broke her engagement to marry John Jacob Astor III; and John Jermain Slocum, 26, a literary agent, direct descendant of Miles Standish; in Manhattan...
Over 100 pages long and selling for only ten cents an issue, the new periodical is edited by Harry Brown and T. Dunstan Thompson '39. The first number will contain poems by W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, Richard Eberhardt, George Barker, and Theodore Spencer; and book reviews by John Slocum '36 and David Parry...