Word: val
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tourist and restaurant trade along the Hudson River, a highly competitive business, got some new enterprisers last week. Their names: Eleanor Roosevelt and son Elliott. Manager Elliott announced that their Val-Kill Inn would probably begin selling meals and lodging this fall...
Elliott does not intend to remain a mere wholesale supplier for long. The Roosevelts now raise 200 pigs a year and already have smokehouses to cure hams and bacon. They plan to put out their own brand (Val-Kill) of sausage, hams and cheese. A little plugging of their products should make it easy to sell all they can turn...
Partner Eleanor, traveling salesman for the business, carried six Val-Kill hams, complete with spices and written instructions for cooking, on her trip to England (see PEOPLE...
...Olympics' final days. The highly touted U.S. two-man bobsledders got whipped. So did France's curvaceous Georgette Thiellière-Miller, regarded as the world's best woman skier. But a flashy countryman of hers-Henri Oreiller, a 21-year-old sunburnt peasant boy from Val d'Isère-was the only person to win two gold medals in 1948's winter Olympics. He hurtled a snow-covered slope to win the men's downhill, and won the Alpine Combined event, too. Swedes kept grinding out victories-in the Pentathlon...
MODERN BRITISH WRITING (320 pp.)-Edited by Denys Val Baker-Vanguard1...