Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Versatile is the word which best describes blondthatched Dave Freeman, Pomona College sophomore, and 19-year-old champion athlete. Freeman divides his time between badminton, tennis, pingpong (table tennis) and golf. He holds the 1939 national men's badminton title and the 1938 national junior tennis championship. In ping pong he is California junior champion. Golf is strictly a division, yet he shoots near par. He won the first of his many titles in boys ping pong at the age of 13, won only a few small trophies until he was 17, since then has won scores of handsome gold...
...another American-the U. S. Naval Attaché in England, Captain Alan G. Kirk-to give Britain the last, happy word in the Ark Royal dispute. Capt. Kirk reported to the state department that in the course of a "routine official visit" to the Fleet, he attended church services and ate lunch aboard the Ark Royal, found her "not scratched...
...Cincinnati cemetery one day last week a weeping widow stood at her husband's grave. Suddenly out of the graveyard solitude came a voice. She listened, caught the word Reds-over & over, louder & louder. A little alarmed but more curious, she picked her way along the row of tombstones, came upon a mound of fresh earth. Peering around it, she discovered the source of the strange voice: a portable radio was keeping a pair of gravediggers posted on what was going en at Crosley Field five miles away...
...ringing tone-poem Finlandia, Jean Sibelius' most popular composition is a little descriptive piece called The Swan of Tuonela. Written in 1893, The Swan of Tuonela was originally part of a suite of four tone-poems illustrating the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, on which U. S. word-poet Longfellow modeled his Hiawatha. Of this suite only The Swan of Tuonela, and another, noisier fragment called Lemminkäinen's Homecoming have been published and performed. The manuscripts of the other two fragments were lost...
Born. To Yehudi Menuhin, 22, blond, brilliant violinist, and Nola Nicholas Menuhin, 20; a daughter; in San Francisco, Calif. The child, which weighed six pounds, twelve ounces, was given the name Zamira. the Russian word for Peace. Said Father Yehudi, who had watched the operation with a surgical mask over his face: "I want the baby to hate music or love it. I don't want any passivity...