Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over. They talked loudly, drank vigorously, and tried to laugh often. When City Editor Wayne Adams walked behind the bar for a moment, someone cheered: "Look-you've got a job already." But for all the forced jokes they felt disillusioned and lost. In a few hours, the wake was over; the lights went out at Lorenzo's for the night, and at the Star for good...
...Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands*), he was to teach hundreds of island boys & girls to read & write, and to build a general school system from scratch. By last week, with his tour of duty in the Pacific ended, 32-year-old Bill O'Brian, a graduate of Wake Forest College with an M.A. from the University of North Carolina, had gone far beyond his original Navy directive. He had founded 46 elementary schools, an intermediate boarding school, a center for training teachers...
...family took the body home, held a wake and a $996 funeral, including $15 for a ringing ministerial eulogy. Last week the family had cause to regret its lavishness. The sons & daughters had started getting cards signed "Dad" from Corrigan's Lumber Camp, Upson, Wis. Startled, two sons got in their car, drove to Upson, found August comfortably curled up on a logging-camp bunk...
Last week, Author de la Roche and the saga of Jalna, a mythical 19th Century estate in southern Ontario, were still making literary news. Mary Wake field (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3), Miss de la Roche's eleventh novel of the Jalna series, was published in the U.S. The Literary Guild chose it as the Guild selection for February (for March in Canada) and expected Mary Wakefield to sell 500,000 copies. That would push the sales of Miss de la Roche's novels (now translated into a dozen languages) near the two-million mark...
...Till Hell Won't Have It." Hogan knows every foot of Riviera's 7,000-yd. course. Two years running he has won the Los Angeles Open there. And there last June, leaving a hare & hounds trail of half-smoked cigarettes in his wake, he won his greatest triumph thus far-the U.S. Open championship. He played Riviera as if he owned it; the caddies called it Hogan's Alley...