Word: w
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasure should have been released before the Jan. 1 deadline to qualify for the Academy Awards-which it would have won hands down in at least three departments: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (W. Huston...
Remote as the Southern threat was, it added zest to the Republicans' own festivities. In Huntington, W. Va. for a Lincoln Day address, Senate Republican Whip Ken Wherry taunted: "Where are the Jeffersonian Democrats today? They are just waiting to be invited to join...
...dusk when tall, lanky Major Winston W. Ehrgott of New York City turned his jeep into the flagstone courtyard of the Greek headquarters at Komotini, in eastern Thrace. An American adviser with the Greek Army, he had been promised a chance to observe a cavalry patrol that would go out that night against nearby Communist Andartes (guerrillas). Inside headquarters, a beribboned Greek colonel offered him a glass of cognac. A night patrol? Surely the American was joking. The colonel explained: "We never move cavalry at night. Horses fall down; you might run into ambushes...
...John W. Taylor describes his father as "a positively incurable optimist, who went into one business venture after another, convinced that this time he'd make a million. He never did. Instead, he fell dead in a hotel lobby with his drummer's case in his hand." By last week, when John Taylor was inaugurated as president of the University of Louisville, students and professors had come to realize that he had his father's indomitable optimism. In nine months in office (before being officially inaugurated) drawling, 41-year-old John Taylor has drummed up more trade...
Slapped. With used-car prices on late models still well above those of new cars, Oliver W. Wood, president of National Used Car Dealers Association, endeared himself to the Senate Banking and Currency Committee by proposing price controls to hold auto prices down. The association's Vice President L. M. Hargrove promptly wired the committee that the anti-control association "will force Mr. Wood's resignation...