Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princeton's Christian Gauss, 69, who started out to be a poet and ended as a famed, judiciously quizzical dean, emerged from retirement last week to wing a few cloth-yard shafts at the target of U.S. education. The onlookers at Princeton-about 75 secondary-schoolmen -had to admit that he hit the target with some smacking bull's-eyes. Said Dean Gauss...
...than anything: its series has run to 31 articles, none very critical or exhaustive, but powerful circulation pullers. On its editorial page, the Post still hews to a right-of-center line, but in its text pieces it sometimes wavers in a fashion bewildering to readers. When its left-wing Associate Editor Edgar (Red Star Over China) Snow wrote a series about Russia to the effect that U.S. folks don't understand the Russians but should, the Post ran it-and added a self-conscious little note saying: "Readers may be interested to know that the series . . . precipitated...
Cinemactress Janis Paige, who at one time or another has been Miss Bowling Girl, Miss Delicious, Miss Wing Spread of 1946, The Black Widow Girl, and Miss Best Table Decoration, was finally awarded the title, The Title...
Gonzÿlez owed a debt to the Commies for their crucial support in last October's election. He paid it by giving them three Cabinet posts, their first in South America; other posts went to the right-wing landowner Liberals and his own middle-of-the-road Radicals. But even as clever a performer as Gonzÿlez found it difficult to walk this political tightrope with the comrades on his shoulders. Last month, he eased them out of the act, and formed a new Cabinet dominated by his own party...
...Allen White (TIME, March 18, 1946), whose author died in 1944, at 75. One significant sign of the times: the prize for distinguished work as a reporter went to the New York World-Telegram's single-minded Frederick Woltman, who keeps a close and watchful eye on left-wing activities; he won the citation for his periodic pieces on "the infiltration of Communism in the United States...