Word: freeman
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...David Freeman of Pasadena, 1938 national junior tennis champion: the U. S. badminton championship; for the second successive year; smashing onetime (1937-38) Titleholder Walter Kramer of Detroit in the final, 15-4, 15-4; at Seattle. Another young Californian, Evelyn Boldrick of San Diego, won the women's singles-making California look like the future kindergarten for badminton as well as tennis...
...Editor Freeman made the Civil War in Spain clear to Richmond readers by comparing Talavera de la Reina to Burkeville Junction, Va. When German troops concentrated at Aachen, soon after World War II began, Dr. Freeman wrote in the News Leader...
...cram all his activities into the time allotted him, Editor Freeman orders his life by a military schedule. He rises at 4:45 each morning, drives to work (solemnly saluting a statue of General Lee along the way), reaches his office at precisely 5:40. At 1:15 he drives home (again saluting General Lee), spends his afternoon working on books, articles, lectures, talks for an hour with his wife, climbs to the third-floor suite where he has a bedroom, study, bath, and a little chapel (with stained-glass window) for meditation. At exactly 8:45 he goes...
...take your ease in Zion," he tells his newsmen. But if an insomniac reporter beats him to the office, Editor Freeman is rather piqued than gratified. Sometimes he stomps through the city room and salutes his staff: "Good morning, Christian warriors! What the News Leader needs is more news and less bull...
Last week, after peace came to weary Finland, Strategist Freeman wrote: "Men of short memory and shorter patience are demanding a more vigorous prosecution of the war. . . . Will the dead be given leave to speak from the grave? They have one answer to all the insistence upon rash offensives. It is compressed into seven words: Do not attack until you are ready! "President...