Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sour-grapes Private Dawn Van Horn's letter of criticism of the Tysons' $40,000 debut [TIME, Oct. 1], something should be said: 1) the whole letter glows green with envy; 2) the old principle of live & let live is still a good one; 3) it seems doubtful she's as much worried about the needs of "a thousand American girls" as she is about her getting the Van Horn hands on "a fur coat and a swell watch"; 4) someone should tell Private Van Horn what part intolerance played in starting the war she was just...
...John's and by choosing its present campus." The president of St. John's alumni summoned to his alma mater's aid the shades of Francis Scott Key and Major General Allan McBride, who died in a prison camp at Formosa. Columbia's Professor Mark Van Doren added his testimonial to St. John's: "The best known, the most often discussed, the most often debated and the most widely copied liberal arts college in America...
...VAN METER Judsonia...
...sold to a sponsor), School of the Air gets a lot of special handling, and quite a budget ($150,000 a year). Last year 800 actors and musicians and 45 scriptwriters were used on one or another of its 150 pro grams. Its guest performers have included Carl Van Doren, Archibald MacLeish, Orson Welles, Canada Lee, Tallulah Bankhead, Deems Taylor. The Army broadcast it to servicemen over 400 radio stations, and the OWI beamed it to Australia and New Zealand...
...there Were other might-have-beens. The New Dealing New York Post's Washington columnists, Charles Van Devander and William O. Player Jr., pointed to one: "Would he [Dewey] have gained any political advantage by telling all he knew? If he had done so he would have invited denunciation by General Marshall and Admiral King, whom Dewey was praising throughout the campaign and promising to retain in office if he were elected. . . . We'd say that Dewey was right on political as well as patriotic grounds; and that if he'd thrown that dynamite bomb it would...