Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even in heavily Democratic Jersey City, where Mayor Kenny made no effort at all to produce votes for Boss Hague's candidate, Driscoll managed to pile up a plurality of some 18,000 votes. (The day after the election, Mayor Kenny received a small parcel from Wene's press secretary. Contents: a catsup-stained, seven-inch carving knife and a message: "Dear John: I pulled this out of Wene's back this morning; I thought you might need it for future reference...
Every now & then the logic of it all was overpowering. Suppose he did have to settle for a small part in a western movie at first? Wouldn't they spot Artie Biggs for a surefire Roy Rogers when they saw his lightning draw and heard him sing the way he sang at Manhattan's St. Vincent Ferrer's school? Why should a kid with his talents stew through fourth grade, take Skippy and Lady out for their walks every night and waste away his life in a 66th Street flat-when Hollywood was right there, waiting...
Strapping (6 ft. 4 in.), blue-eyed, blond Konstantin Rokossovsky, 52, a hard-hitting Red army field commander in World War II, had in point of fact been born in Poland. His native city, however, was not Warsaw, but the small town of Slovuta, in Volhynia, a province which for centuries has been alternately Polish and Russian. Far from being a child of the working class, he was reared at the aristocratic Nicholas Officers' School in St. Petersburg. In World War II he commanded the armies that relieved Stalingrad, crossing the Don to close a ring around the Nazis...
...chill day in Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith decided he wanted to go fishing. He drove his car out to the Moscow Sea (an artificial lake near the capital) without notifying his MVD guards, who shadowed him everywhere he went. He persuaded the head of a-small fishery to take him out on the lake in the only rowboat in sight. Smith assumed that the guards, who had of course followed him, would wait at the shore. But he had underestimated "the Oriental concept .of hospitality" which he encountered in Russia. Related Smith last week in My Three Years...
...Committee's biggest problem-not because it can't find a suitable city but because so many cities are seeking such an industtry to ward off unemployment. Boston would like to see the mill in adjoining Hingham or Everett; the only steel plant now in New England is a small one on the Mystic River flats in Everett. Hingham, however, has objected that it wants to keep itself residential and will not welcome the mill. Portsmouth, New Hampshire and the Maine ports have put in their bids for the plant, too, but their chances aren't very good because...