Word: ensigns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada's flag will probably be the Red Ensign.* Usage has made it the Dominion's unofficial flag; it was flown from the Parliament Building's Peace Tower on V-E and V-J day. And if Mr. King has his way (which is almost certain in a House of Commons consisting of 126 Liberals against 119 members in opposition), soon Canadians would no longer have to identify themselves in legal matters as British subjects; they would be simply Canadians...
With Davis Cup play due for resumption next summer, the championships were a useful inventory of U.S. talent. Talbert and Parker seem certain team choices. Their fellow-travelers may well be Champions Lieut. Ted Schroeder and Ensign Jack Kramer, if they are out of uniform by then. Such a foursome seemed a poor bet to win the cup back from the Australians, who have Veterans Jack Bromwich, Adrian Quist and Pat Crawford, as well as an 18-year-old wonder boy named Ducky Pails. The Australians can hardly wait to spring Ducky on the world...
...from Groton. Secretary Acheson can be expected to add new life to Jimmy Byrnes's department. The son of an Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut, he went to Groton and Yale (1915), was an ensign in World War I, took his law degree at Harvard. An honor graduate, he was snapped up by the late, great Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis as secretary, soon went on to a potent Washington law firm (Covington, Burling & Rublee...
...public taste from the Western plains to the sea, to the air, to cops & robbers, and back to cowboys. At the crest, when it sold 95 million magazines and pulps a year, S. & S. had a stable of such writers as Upton Sinclair (who wrote under the name of Ensign Clark Fitch, U.S.N.), Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton and 0. Henry...
Married. Mary Hillard MacLeish, 21, schoolteacher daughter of Poet Archibald MacLeish. Assistant Secretary of State and ex-Librarian of Congress; and Navy Ensign Karl Grimm, 22; in Alexandria...