Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Joseph Stewart, Rat Camp: My sisters are all well in here, so do not worry about them. I am fine too, and hope you are the same. So good luck.. May God bless you. Good night from your loving daughter, Jane Stewart...
Such stars as Ann Todd, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Roc, Stewart Granger and John Mills will take their suntans and return to Britain as better attractions at the U.S. box office. Some of his artists, including Margaret Lockwood, are still on the verbal agreement basis because Hollywood is no lure to them. They prefer-out of patriotism and regard for Rank-to stay in England. Director David Lean (Great Expectations) is a case in point. After previewing the movie, a Hollywood executive wired Rank to find out how long his contract with Lean ran. Said Lean, who has no contract: "Forever...
President Conant, speaking at the inauguration of Irvin Stewart as president of West Virginia University on Saturday, declared that "absolute freedom of discussion and absolutely unmolested inquiry is essential" in the nation's universities, if man's present knowledge is to he applied in solving problems of our times...
What then was Britain's good deed? "In the first place," Stewart Perowne told a TIME correspondent recently," "we created the country." Britain's main gift has been the fundamentals of orderly government and security. Before World War I no one dared go out Bagdad's South Gate after dark for fear of bandits. Now it is relatively safe. Many Iraqis used to walk about with one hand on their heads, to ward off djinns...
...does seem as if people might at least take my books home with them." Benchley offers for sale the following rare editions: 1) Pluck and Luck (Holt, 1924), by Robert Benchley-"a very interesting find for collectors" since it is inscribed by Author Benchley to his friend, Donald Ogden Stewart, whose name is misspelled "Stuart"; 2) Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, 1st ed., inscribed ("in bull's blood") to "Garbage-Bird" Benchley, and with "each blank in the text where Scribner's had blushed and put a dash" filled in by Author Hemingway...