Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the announcement telephoned from Washington yesterday that the final contracts are on the way, Harvard's civilian pilot applicants will take to the air by the end of this week, according to Dr. William Bollay, instructor in the ground course...
...Cyril Gerard Holland, vicar of Ewell, Surrey, deplored such chauvinist talk. Said he: "Let us at least leave God as a neutral." In John Bull, Rev. William McCormick, popularly known as "Pat" McCormick, of St. Martins-in-the-Fields, hazarded that "God must hate it all ... the evil behind this use of force, the misery and suffering. . . . His is the hardest part. He's in the midst of all the suffering because . . . Germans and Allies alike . . . we're all his children...
...curtained with frost, it nosed high enough over the earth's curvature so that it was on a theoretical eyeline with W2XBS. Suddenly on the mirror-screen of the receiver appeared the image of Herluf Provensen, NBC announcer. He introduced RCA President David Sarnoff, United Air Lines President William Allan Patterson. As they chatted, a photographer aboard the plane set up his camera. "Smile," he said into the radiophone. Presidents Sarnoff and Patterson obediently smiled, were mugged 200 miles away...
Since last year, no fewer than 13 prominent psychiatrists have publicly diagnosed Adolf Hitler (at long distance) as a paranoiac, have prophesied the Führer's mental collapse. Although he can no longer claim to speak with a patriotic objectivity, Dr. William Brown, director of Oxford's famed Institute of Experimental Psychology, last week upped the number of such diagnoses to 14: "Sir Nevile Henderson's final report on the actions of Herr Hitler confirms my conclusion . . . that he has every symptom of the paranoiac who is suffering from persecutory mania and whose brainstorms and megalomania...
...William Gerhardi (pronounced Jer-hardi), suave novelist whose undergraduate impression of Winston Churchill is famous ("poor stuff for a grown-up man"), signed up in the Officers' Emergency Reserve. Born in St. Petersburg, he thought it "reasonable" of Russia to wish her own former Baltic provinces to remain Baltic, not German. As for himself, "my home is in darkness, my income in jeopardy, my hopes for a career non-existent." Evelyn Waugh, creator of the bright young thing, observed with suspicious blandness that "the war is an extension of our normal habits of life; fighting has been a universal...