Word: section
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...romances and marriages in Hollywood give newspaper and magazine editors the willies. They never know when they will be caught cooing over a couple that has stopped billing. When Shirley Temple and John Agar suddenly called it quits, the Detroit Free Press was thus booby-trapped. Its Sunday magazine section, which had gone to press before the divorce announcement but was distributed two days later, pictured the "happily wedded John Agars." But the Free Press neatly recovered the fumble in a note to its readers in the news section: "This was our darling, dimpled Shirley Temple, and we never thought...
...disputed section of the by-laws reads "The Board of Directors . . . shall issue a printed report to the participating members . . . at least three weeks before the annual meeting of the participating members...
Cole said that consideration will be given to the suggestion that the disputed section be dropped from the by-laws. The Society next year, he said, may include an announcement in its membership "memo book" to the effect that the annual report may be picked up in the Coop office...
Marilyn Coverly of Eliot Hall will lead the Radcliffe section of the drive. Actual donations will be made at Phillips Brooks House November...
This year's drought, the worst in ten years, puts Spain in a desperate position. Grain is critically short--Madrid's otherwise fertile surrounding plains were brown scorched dust. Necessary raw materials, except in the relatively prosperous Barcelona section, are virtually non-existent, partly because of Spain's low productivity, and partly because of few favorable trade agreements; mechanical equipment such as tractors is for the far-distant future. Railroad stock, built before the 1936 Civil War, is worn out: trains are the slowest, dirtiest, most uncomfortable in Europe...