Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editorial, the Tennessean's Jennings Perry rated Boss Crump low as an invective hurler. Said the Tennessean: the South once "bred original and talented artificers in insult. ... Its present practitioners are no more than mere name callers, repetitiously stumbling through the same comminations . . . mumbling a string of bawdy epithets." Trying its own hand, the Tennessean did a little better, but not much. Crump, wrote Editorialist Perry, is a "foulmouthed old boss . . . ugly and snarling ... a contemptible relic of the barbarous past...
...lank, hard-bargaining hotelman named Conrad Nicholson Hilton, 59, longed to own something really big. Inevitably, his gaze fell upon the world's biggest hotel: Chicago's 2,700-room Stevens. Last week, for $7,500,000, Innkeeper Hilton proudly added the Chicago colossus to his string of 13 hotels (including Manhattan's Plaza and Roosevelt, and Los Angeles' swank Town House...
Crescent's Morden and Ertegun, who are putting out a 1,200-disc reissue this week, have enthusiastic plans for new Ory recordings this spring. Meanwhile the Kid, already expert on the five-string banjo, guitar, alto saxophone, trumpet and bass, is taking piano lessons. Mulling over his future, he concluded: "Now that I've got me a good Dixieland band, I'm going to try and play as long as I hold...
...Cracow, Poland's fourth city and the gateway to southern Silesia and its complex of German industrial cities. At the Nida the Germans had worked six months to build an impassable barrier. Thousands of Yugoslav laborers had dug three lines of trenches on either side, protected by a string of strong points to the east. Marshal Ivan Konev made straight for these barriers, bypassed the strong points before the enemy had recovered from his breakthrough. Konev's advance forces crossed the formidable Nida line before the retreating Germans could...
Maury Maverick, head of WPB's Smaller War Plants Corp., returned from a tour of the Western Front with a string of adjectives for National Association of Manufacturers' Board Chairman Frederick C. Crawford's rosy picture of conditions in France (TIME, Jan. 15): "Infamous, superficial, cruel, obnoxious...