Word: enthusiastic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Killed in Action. Lieut. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., 29, Harvard-educated Rugby and sailing enthusiast, oldest of his father's nine children ; in the European Theater...
...with Manfred Lee, of the "Ellery Queen" crime series), bearded Rex Stout (creator of orchidophilous Nero Wolfe), Christopher Morley (author of the theory that Sherlock Holmes was an American). Critic Clifton (Information Please) Fadiman, and General Motors Executive Edgar W. Smith, world's No. 1 nonliterary Sherlock Holmes enthusiast...
...Senators, and all who knew him, liked and respected him. Franklin Roosevelt did, and trusted Good Friend Charley implicitly. McNary was a public power enthusiast. He was a farm booster, with a name known to millions of farmers through his McNary-Haugen Act, forerunner of all farm subsidies. Not a man of international vision, but possessor of conscience and integrity, he veered back & forth on intervention before Pearl Harbor. These attitudes told as much of his origin as his thinking. He was born and all his life lived in Salem, Ore. (pop. 30,900), the town whence his grandfather...
...Dean. Usafi's Colonel Franny Spaulding is a long, lean, burning enthusiast for the job of teaching soldiers. When he burns hot enough he bursts out with "Godfrey!" Sometimes he even goes as far as "Gosh!" He is one of the fastest coffee-and-sandwich racers down the illimitable corridors of Washington's Pentagon Building. A pragmatic New Englander, he was Harvard's dean of education before the Army took...
...also a qualified electrical operator and has thrown his Kleigs on the "This is the Army" and "Thank Your Lucky Stars" sets. He is, according to Chief Clem, an expert in skiing, judo, wrestling, tumbling. Re skiing, though, Chief Terwilliger says, "I'm the world's greatest enthusiast and poorest performer," but looking at his record, there are those who might doubt this statement...