Word: latterday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen: whether the G.I. staff would produce such latterday giants as the Stars & Stripes' Class of '18: F.P.A., Steve Early, Grantland Rice, the New Yorker's Harold Ross, the late Alexander Woollcott...
Jack Dempsey's newly divorced Hannah Williams made a singing comeback on Broadway after 13 years' absence and several days on a soup diet. Her latterday debut a thwacking nightclub success, the hungry redhead looked forward to a steak as soon as her nerves lay down again...
Died. Leonor Fresnel Loree, 82, retired (1938) head of Delaware & Hudson Railroad; of a heart attack; at his mountain estate near West Orange, N.J. Among sleek, ICC-conscious latterday railroad presidents, massive (300-lb.), buffalo-bearded, uncompromising Leonor Loree seemed a gaudy symbol of the roaring '80s, when he began his long career. In 60 years he headed more roads, introduced more permanent operating innovations, made a higher salary ($100,000) than any surviving railroader. His last spectacular gesture came in 1933, when he bought his way (for $10,000,000) into the No. 1 stockholder's seat...