Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church, the building fund was oversubscribed by the next day's mail. Once he put an agonized mother on his program to appeal for the return of her kidnaped child. When she got home from the television studio, the baby was on her doorstep, safe and sound. Mexicans thank Paco Malgesto for that...
...subject of British culture, Keith Godwin, sculptor and Lecturer at London University, summed up, "We're doing quite nicely, thank...
...individual G.I. may have been little aware of naval support during the Normandy invasion, but when Major General Leonard Gerow went ashore to set up V Corps headquarters, his first message to General Bradley was: "Thank God for the United States Navy!" That is also the message of Rear Admiral (ret.) Samuel Eliot Morison, U.S.N.R., in his massive naval chronicle of World War II. Of the 14 volumes he blocked out, only three remain to be written. Vol. XI, The Invasion of France and Germany, 1944-1945, has the firm documentation and almost jaunty dash of its predecessors; it also...
...reserve supply of harp strings; other Clevelanders contributed fiddle strings, mouthpieces and clarinet reeds to the Polish musicians. Cleveland's First Trumpeter Louis Davidson gave one of his $300 trumpets to Trumpeter Francisek Stockfiscz of the Katowice Philharmonia (the Cleveland Orchestra management promised to buy Davidson another). "Thank you," said Stockfiscz at a formal banquet. "You have changed my life...
...Havana or San Juan; the rest of the time it is Chicago, where Spies heads Northwestern University's department of nutrition and metabolism. Since his school days, pellagra has been almost completely banished from the U.S. And, for this gain in health, his boyhood neighbors have nobody to thank more than Tom Spies...