Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the Botanical Museum were represented in the announcement, Hugh C. Cutler and Donovan S. Correll '39, both research fellows. Cutler will study the origin of the maize plant in South America, and Correll will investigate an American botanical species. Albert C. Smith, Curator of the Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum, will engage in Botanical exploration of the Fiji Islands...
...Editor Smith picked up the phone, demanded that the New York Post syndicate tell its new man to rewrite his maiden column. The syndicate said no. Smith canceled his contract, hung up, batted out a front-page manifesto: "It would be impossible to guarantee to print every word that Mr. Ickes might see fit to write...
...this and other tokens, San Franciscans knew last week that Paul Smith had come back from the war unchanged. Six hours after Pearl Harbor, 33-year-old Paul Smith left his job as general manager of George Cameron's Chronicle, flew to Washington to take over the Navy's press section, with a lieutenant commander's two and a half stripes on his sleeve. From there he had bounced 1) to OWI, as domestic news director; 2) to the Marines, as a private; 3) to combat in the Pacific (Bougainville, Guadalcanal, Guam) as a lieutenant; 4) back...
Last week, gathering manpower for his campaign, he staged a staff raid on the Examiner. Hearstlings Edward W. McQuade, city editor; Alvin Hyman, top rewrite man, and Richard V. Hyer, legman specializing in crime reporting, walked out to go to work for Paul Smith's Chronicle. The rattled Examiner hastily scattered pay raises to keep the rest of its staff. But Smith boasted that his new recruits had not changed sides for money. "They simply are going to work for an honest newspaper," he cracked, "so they can live with themselves and their children...
...south had a little trouble with the high altitude, but otherwise professed to be happy. Best of the imported sluggers was Bob Estalella, late of the Philadelphia Athletics, with four homers and a .471 batting average. But none of the fancy-salaried lads came near a U.S. Negro, Theolic Smith, who was batting a lofty...