Word: delta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picking up . . . . Our literature is just on the verge of getting significant." He singled out as the best of the young writers Jean (The Mountain Lion} Stafford, Thomas (Mister Roberts) Heggen, A. B. (The Big Sky) Guthrie Jr., and shared Robert Penn Warren's enthusiasm for Eudora (Delta Wedding) Welty...
...millions of his fellow Nigerians who want independence from Britain. Some call him the Negro Gandhi, the jungle George Washington. His name is Nnamdi Azikiwe (rhymes with click away); he is the acacia thorn in the British lion's paw, the Bertie McCormick (see PRESS) of the Niger Delta, a coconut grove Jim Farley, and one of the few people in the world who got a high opinion of the U.S. from washing dishes in a Pittsburgh waffle foundry and having Pugilist Jackie Zivic poke thumbs in his eyes...
William Hodding Carter, Jr., Editor and publisher of the Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville, Miss., and former publisher of the Cairo edition of "Stars and Stripes" and "Yank" magazine; awarded Pulitzer Prize for editorials in 1946, Southern Writers Award for his novel, "Wings of Fear." Master of Arts. Citation: "Writer and publisher, forward looking interpreter of the South, we welcome back a former Nieman Fellow...
Town Topics. CHAK's most important contribution to Arctic life is its free broadcast of personal messages. Every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, from 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Aklavikans can get in touch, via CHAK, with friends or relatives out trapping in the Mackenzie River delta country. Thus Nels Hvatum learned one night that his house in Aklavik had been destroyed by fire and two of his children killed. Last week, CHAK's listeners heard such messages as these...
...first major U.S. airline crash in 14 weeks, and Delta's first since 1935. What accounted for it? The reason was shockingly obvious: the Muscogee County Airport, like some 300 other U.S. airports regularly used by commercial aircraft, has no control tower to regulate landings. The Civil Aeronautics Administration has barely enough funds to operate towers at 117 of the nation's larger airports (minimum annual cost: $15,000 each). The Georgia crash might help get additional funds from Congress to operate more...