Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...previous three: Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit, Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber, Joseph S. Pennell's The History of Rome Hanks...
...Americans were Bradley, who helped Montgomery lay out the ground tactics, and Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith, a bulldog of a man who is perhaps the hardest-working officer in the U.S. Army. It was Beedle Smith who coordinated the entire invasion planning. TIME Correspondent Charles Wertenbaker called him "driving, determined, devoted, and occasionally furious." Eisenhower called him the best chief of staff in the world, and Monty said quite openly that he would like to steal...
Such was freedom of the college press in Louisiana under the late Huey Pierce Long. (The new president he installed, Dr. James Monroe Smith, is now in the sixth year of an 8-to-24 year sentence to the state penitentiary for embezzlement.) Last week another L.S.U. controversy raged over the issue of campus kissing. Tall, leonine President William Bass ("William the Conqueror") Hatcher had frowned on good-night kisses. Pretty Sophomore Gloria Jeanne Heller, 18, issued a rebellious manifesto. "We are meant and taught to be robots," she declared. She was promptly expelled. Fellow students vainly clamored protest. Remarked...
...FARLEY SMITH...
...With no more paper available for Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit (500,000 copies), Reynal & Hitchcock are now issuing red and green certificates, at $2.75 each, entitling the holder to a copy early in 1945. In the first three weeks, bookstores ordered 6,000 certificates...