Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After World War I, Kohler taught at Northwestern University, left a lucrative private accounting practice to set up the books for the Tennessee Valley Authority. During World War II, he moved on to the War Production Board, moved again to the Petroleum Administration. He earned a reputation as a man who could talk down tough-talking Harold Ickes. Said one admirer: "He is hard to get along with. He is unreasonably honest...
...trouble deepened he got little aid or comfort from his seconds. After he left Sun Valley, Idaho, he stopped at the desert hamlet of Carey (pop. 600), was handed a wreath, asked to dedicate the airport. None of the traveling White House secretariat bothered to check on the name of the citizen for whom the field was being named. Gravely, the President began: "I'm honored to dedicate this airport, and present this wreath to the parents of the brave boy who died fighting for his country...
...April 1943, he was killed storming a German machine-gun nest with a detachment of French Goums in Tunisia's Sedjenane Valley. The Silver Star was awarded to him posthumously. He had also been recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross but that was denied. At the time of his death he was awaiting court-martial for insubordination. They buried him near the spot where he fell...
...centuries, native treasure hunters have searched for that cave, reasoning that the walled-up soldiers must have carried valuable loot. One of the searchers found an empty cave in Antelias valley. Near by he noticed a similar rock formation, its mouth choked with debris. He dug a narrow shaft, and found not a walled-up army lying among its treasures, but at least a few chips of man-worked flint. The chips were spotted by a kibitzing U.S. archeologist, and a Jesuit task force attacked the cave to find what manner of ancient man had lived...
...from Sleepy Hollow you well might think that the old tale had been a trilogy. The show is incredibly poky and protracted; it just won't keep movin' along. Nor has it very much more of musicomedy's factitious lure than of the old Hudson River Valley's drowsy charm; only here & there is a lyric sprightly, or the dancing gay. As Ichabod, angular Gil Lamb is likable and pleasant, but by no means a tide-turner. Best thing about Sleepy Hollow is the singing, which does a lot for the next best thing-the songs...