Word: torches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago, eccentric Millionaire-Engineer Davis revealed his version of a fey project for a Dover war memorial pro posed last summer (TIME, July 29). Davis' idea: an 80-foot statue of Winston Churchill holding a mammoth cigar over his head like the Statue of Liberty torch, mounted on a 100-foot-high pedestal bearing an inscription, "Never was so much owed by so many to one man," which thoroughly squeezed the juice from a great Churchillism. A model (see cut) was prepared by a New Hampshire sculptor, Viggo Brandt-Erickson. Davis offered his idea to the mayors...
...committee of six for the considered opinions of all readers everywhere concerning the literature in doubt. When it comes to the fine difference between fifth for filth's sake, and reality for the sake of good literature, the Watch and Ward Society of 1946 once more lights its torch of emotionalism and proceeds down the glory road...
...Carol Jackson, 35, was born in Oshkosh, Wis., the daughter of a corporation lawyer. She majored in philosophy at Wellesley, traveled around the world, free-lanced, was converted to Catholicism in 1941. But when Ed Willock ind Carol Jackson met last spring, as contributors to the Dominican magazine, the Torch, they found they had a lot in common...
...Tenn. a fortnight ago, broke out anew last week 865 miles away in tiny, shabby Central Falls, R.I. (pop. 26,000). Again it was Army & Navy veterans who set the blaze; this time, four rookie policemen. But there were differences: 1) the rookies had never meant to light the torch of civic reform in the first place; 2) they fired no shots, broke no laws in waking up the town...
...fixed Rizal, and freedom, forever in the Filipino mind. The same year, Spain was chastising others of its colonists-the Cubans. In the U.S., Manifest Destiny, indignant over the spectacle of Spanish soldiers hunting defenseless, freedom-loving Cubans in the hills, glowered and tugged. In Congress and in the torch-lighted squares, war fever mounted...