Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most familiar characters in the U.S., last week found his finest recognition-as a crack U.S. fighting man. In England, 34-year-old Brigadier General Edward J. Timberlake Jr., commander of a B-24 combat wing, announced the appointment of 36-year-old Lieut. Colonel James Stewart as his chief of staff. Ted Timberlake, one of the Air Forces' greatest tacticians and red tape cutters, picks men for ability, not for public prestige...
Pennsylvania-born Jimmy Stewart had a conservative education, blossomed after college into unconservative fame as a nice-looking, homey cinema hero. His longtime hobby was aviation. When he entered the Army in March 1941 (one of the first screenmen to do so), he was already a licensed commercial pilot...
Hoaxers MacAuley and Stewart confessed that they culled the first three lines of Culture as Exhibit from a U.S. report on mosquito breeding grounds...
...Lieut. MacAuley and Corporal Stewart were out to kill more than an afternoon. As Ern Malley they wrote: "For some years we have observed with distaste the gradual decay of meaning and craftsmanship in poetry. Harris and other Angry Penguins writers represent the Australian outcrop of a literary fashion prominent in England and America, a distinctive feature of which seemed to us to render its devotees insensible of its absurdity...
Buzzed Surrealist Editor Harris: "If fifty million monkeys with fifty million typewriters tapped for fifty million years, one of them would produce a Shakespeare sonnet. I hope MacAuley and Stewart have not produced such a phenomenon. It is not their claims of exposure but time [that] tells the story. Time will explain that a myth is sometimes greater than its creators...