Word: wizards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime economics. Since war's beginning he has helped the Administration regularly on informal assignments, and given it the benefit of his experience as World War I's head of war production. Now again, in a time of crisis, the U.S. has called on the Wall Street wizard of the early 1900s...
...years ago Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, retired Wall Street "wizard of the electrical industry," bought a cemetery plot, picked out a tombstone, lived on. Last week, at 80, he married Mrs. George Palmer, 62, of Old Lyme, Conn...
Another character is Indian Chieftain Tishomingo, a wizard with a bullwhip, who had spent his life trying to invent a Choctaw alphabet, and succeeded. Tishomingo has some of the fabulous charm which Fenimore Cooper gave his aborigines. And the last days and death of tough old Sam Dabney skirt the edge of really good romancing, only now & then breaking bounds to snatch a slice...
...first two rounds the caddies wore the players' numbers. Then Tam President George S. May insisted that no player could tee off for the third round without his number. Joe Kirkwood, famed trick-shot wizard who is accustomed to touring the world in regal style, angrily refused. So did Tommy Armour, onetime U.S. and British Open champion. Armour retired; Kirkwood was disqualified...
...State declared war on denigrating Native Son Bob Burns, forced him to return to a Little Rock mass meeting and explain. He promised to present "a truly sympathetic character" in the movies, subsequently withdrew from Paramount's scheduled Wizard of Arkansas because it caricatured his native State. When Paramount sued, all Arkansas rose in Burns's defense...