Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twisted Facts. It was neither true nor new, and it had already been investigated at length by Congress. Before the Tribune twisted them, the facts were these: last January Congress had approved the Smith-Mundt bill, which set up a bureau to run the Voice of America and otherwise see that the U.S. story is told abroad. The bill called for the widest use of private agencies in telling that story. The free, nongovernmental press, said Congressmen who toured Europe last summer, was the best weapon against Russia's propaganda...
...John W. Smith, Omaha...
HARVARDYALE Huntington, 2b Moher, ss Caulfield, rf James, lf Crosby, c Redden, cf Coulson, lb Matthews, 3b Lunder or Howe, lf Goodyear, rf Coppinger, 3b Felske, c Gannon, cf Smith, 2b Dunn, ss Bush, lb Godin, p Quinn...
...Smith College Professor Edgar Wind thinks he has found the answer. In a recently published book (Bellini's Feast of the Gods, Harvard University, $7.50), he argues that the key to the riddle is Gaea's symbolic quince. The Feast, he says, is really a wedding party; Gaea is Lucrezia Borgia; Neptune is her husband, Alfonso d'Este, who commissioned the painting...
...crowded 75 minutes of song-illustrated animation involving: 1) skating lovers, tintype style, emulated by rabbits; 2) Rimsky-Korsakov's bumblebee, tormented by a boogie bass; 3) Johnny Appleseed, advised by a Guardian Angel in a coonskin cap; 4) Donald Duck, Joe Carioca and Organist Ethel Smith in the throes of a samba; 5) an apotheosis of Joyce Kilmer's Trees; 6) a young tugboat named Little Toot which disgraces and redeems itself; 7) a tall-tale, free-for-all finale about Pecos Bill, his horse Widow-maker and his gal Sluefoot...