Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...major leagues elected Happy Chandler commissioner of baseball 5½ years ago when the game thought it needed friends in Washington to survive the manpower drafts of World War II. Albert Benjamin Chandler, junior Senator from Kentucky, had more than a toothpaste smile and a pump-handle handshake; he had good connections. Last week, with manpower drafts threatening baseball once again, the club owners could still use friends in Washington, but they had had enough of Happy Chandler...
...sent to India to take charge of the A.T.C. airlift which flew "the Hump" between Assam and Kunming in China. The month that Will Tunner took command, the Hump lift carried 23,700 tons of supplies; eleven months later, it moved 69,300 tons. Said Lieut. General Albert Wedemeyer, then commander of U.S. forces in China: "Tunner created an epic in air operation...
Fuss & Feathers. Pogoland's characters are talking animals who live in the Okefenokee Swamp and call themselves "nature's screetures." Pogo himself is a wide-eyed, naive little possum, and his pals include a raffish, cigar-smoking alligator named Albert; Porky Pine, a gloomy realist; Churchy LaFemme, a turtle and a reformed pirate captain; Rowland Owl, a nearsighted, pseudo-scientist who once tried to invent an "Adam Bomb"; a prideful hound named Beauregard Bugleboy; and a fantastic menagerie of feathered, furry swamp characters. Together they romp and fuss, conversing in a vaguely Southern dialect that drips with puns...
Pits & Pie. Pogo, which frequently takes a poke at U.S. manners & morals, usually sticks to such personal problems as Porky's courting of Mam'selle Hepzibah, a skunk with a French accent. To help Porky, Albert and Churchy offer their services as serenaders, sing in typical Pogo style: "Oh, pick a pock of peach pits, pockets full of pie, foreign twenty blackboards baked until they...
...candidates for the committee are: William H. Aaron, George S. Abrams, Carmel J. Cohen, Howard L. Kastel, Martin K. King, Joshua M. Levin, Harold S. Levy, H. Lester Medlinsky, Reid B. Morrison, Albert E. Neisser, Bruce D. Phillips, Dirk H. Post, Robert L. Shapiro, Thomas W. Tavenner, and Leonard B. Weingarten...