Word: tre
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Loreto Santarelli, 57, soft-tongued, Italian-born maître d'hôtel of London's big, swank Savoy since 1926, inventor of Britain's war-famed Woolton Pie (crusted vegetable stew with bacon rinds), confident to gourmets, statesmen, royalty; of a heart attack; in London. Released after brief internment at the beginning of the war, British Subject Santarelli guided his guests politely among steel girders to the Savoy's emergency bomb-cellar dining rooms during the blitz...
...Kicks. Operating boss of this cleanup job is slow-talking, 52-year-old Brigadier General Frank Johnson McSherry, who was born in El Dorado Springs, Mo., fought in World War I, in 1942 served in Washington as director of operations for tRe War Manpower Commission...
...book reviewing greeted Rome Hanks last fort night with the most thunderous salvo that has welcomed a first novel since Gone With The Wind. It was a "superb achieve ment" to the New York Times and "a beautiful and terrible book" to the Herald Tribune; a "powerful, intense and tre mendous story" to the Chicago Sun; "extraordinary, impressive, raw, vital, brutal and alive" to the San Francisco Chronicle...
...Publisher Van W. Stewart of the Ochil-tre^ County Herald (circ. 2,045), longtime ardent Rooseveltian, editorially announced that he would vote against 16 years of F.D.R. (Sole exception: Dewey as the G.O.P. candidate...
...story is taken from my play, A La Creole, which was produced at Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré in New Orleans in 1927, by the Professional Players in Philadelphia and the Pasadena Community Playhouse. The speech in the play is made by a little Creole spinster doing job work in Madame Toup's carnival costume shop. Mademoiselle Titine says: "It was a religion my Pappa had for opera, yas. Me, I can show you that box at the opera where I am almost born! It was Les Huguenots and when the chorus sing...