Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the hump with this burst, the part-time umbrella salesman could not be stopped. He calmly outshot ex-Yankee Ballplayer Sam Byrd in the final to pocket the P.G.A.'s first prize, $5,000 in war bonds, and stretch his winning string to a dizzy nine straight tourneys. His victory-starved rivals' future looked darker than ever. Cracked Mike Turnesa: "I was 7 under par. . . . I don't see how anyone can beat...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, 70, wound up his campaign at Walthamstow Stadium, one of Britain's biggest dog-racing tracks. While a band (for no known reason) blared-Deep in the Heart of Texas and Umbrella Man (which might have irritated Conservatives who recalled Neville Chamberlain), Churchill arrived with Clemmy (Mrs. Churchill). The Prime Minister drew a tremendous cheer. Then began one of the most exasperating hecklings of his career. Well-primed rowdies howled, booed and shouted: "We want Attlee!" (Clement Attlee, Labor Party candidate for Prime Minister). Said Churchill: "In a free country like ours. . . ." Boos blitzed...
...walrus-moustached, bloated Colonel Blimp of the David Low cartoon is associated with the Cliveden set of umbrella-toting appeasers, with the narrow selfishness that, along with other attributes, is labeled fascist. Cinema's Colonel Blimp is less bitterly presented, and while he is frequently laughed at he's not a bad sort...
...Germans had surrendered. Cheering crowds lined the harbor of St. Peter Port, the port of Guernsey, to greet the British battalions. Then, out of an assault craft stepped an austere, black-clad man. On his head was a black bowler. In one hand he held a tightly rolled umbrella. Under one arm he hugged a black G.R. (a dispatch case with a George Rex imprint). At the first sight since 1940 of a typical London civil servant, the crowd burst spontaneously into There'll Always Be An England...
...astonishing in a new, statesmanlike Homburg, and Mrs. Kaiser stomped up the narrow isle of faces, and into the Opera House. Then came Commander and Mrs. Harold Stassen (with a pink rose corsage) ; Senator Vandenberg, smiling largely at the populace; Canada's Mackenzie King, prudently armed with an umbrella; Bidault of France, bareheaded as always and skipping smartly from car to door way; Lord Halifax, almost unnoticed in the flashy Arabians' wake; Anthony Eden, acknowledging handclaps and squeals with a wave, a smile. Noting them, and many others, the crowd stirred and incessantly asked: "Where are the Russians...