Word: wicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this and that, to manage eggs from wrongly fed and badly housed chickens, to scrape and tan animal furs for family use, to wash and spin wool, with homemade soap and homemade spinning wheel, to finish the winter evenings by the light of a potato-lamp (with its improvised wick set in melted fat in a hollowed-out potato!). The effort is sure to leave him with the greatest indifference toward the "literature of despair...
...bomber bailed out. The pilot, Lieut. Virgil Trombly, landed in a tree, was soon greeted by a U.S. infantryman, his neighbor and high school classmate at Chazy, N.Y., Henry Dickinson. Copilot Lieut. Frank Gorman hit ground safely, immediately spied his neighbor and classmate at Shaker Heights, Ohio, Lieut. David Wick...
...local jump bands. The best of a poor lot of these bands is probably Sabby Lewis, who once in a while looks up from the book and plays something resembling good jazz. When this is over everyone orders another bottle of Pick-wick, adjusts his dark glasses, and sighs nostalgically for the days when Coleman Hawkins really "carved the joint...
Married. Marion Wick Kelly, 26, widow of the late, famed U.S. Army Air Forces Captain Colin Purdie Kelly Jr., bomber of the Jap battleship Haruna; and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) John Watson Pedlow, 35, peacetime chemical engineer (American Viscose Corp.); in Crozierville, Pa. The mother of three-year-old Colin III ("Corky," nominated for West Point by President Roosevelt in a letter to the U.S. President of 1956), observed: ". . . You can never forget the past. . . . But . . . life will and must go on ... while you need not deliberately seek new ties you must not erect false barriers against them. . . . Lieut. Pedlow will...
Harvard bills should be paid by the 26th (if we've received then). Letters from Midshipmen Tweedy and Borth-wick this week were interesting. See Wachs and "Breck" for a look; it's worth while...