Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Leicester Hemingway, adventurous younger brother of Author Ernest Hemingway, discovered and warned the U.S. about in a Reader's Digest article back in 1940 made news last week. The Army's Caribbean Defense Command arrested 19 Panama Canal Zone employes, nightclub owners and Colon cabaret girls, along with British Honduras' leading businessman: shrewd "Captain" George Gough, so-called "King of Belize" (rhymes with sneeze). All were part of a spy ring which not only informed Nazi submarines of United Nations ship movements, but helped to refuel the subs at little-known keys and hidden shore bases...
...hundred and sixty-nine were interested in serving as hospital orderlies. These men will work at Massachusetts General Hospital, where the need for general assistants is urgent as a result of war demands on younger personnel. The Auxillary Police attracted 211 for duty in Harvard's own unit, organized to patrol the University, which is an air raid district in itself...
...motorcycle-propelled beach chair complete with liveried chauffeur propels one dowager around Newport at a rate of 70 miles per gallon. Younger Newporters tear around on motor scooters and bicycles...
From England, where pictures of the younger generation at play are rare these days, came two substitutes, rare in their own way: a shot of grizzle-bearded, 50-year-old Philosopher C. E. M. Joad giving his portly all in a London field-hockey match; a shot of 63-year-old Lady Nancy Astor footing it featly at the opening of bomb-blasted Plymouth's summer season...
Clapper is a stocky, stoop-shouldered man with beaked nose, retreating forehead, thoughtful blue-grey eyes set in dark rings like small rain clouds. Younger looking than his 50 years, he gives the appearance of being easily transplantable back to the east Kansas farm where he was born...