Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sport? Well, if it was not much like a Rugger match or punting on the Thames, Britons were having a mighty good time just the same. Half a century ago, London's Daily Mail put up a prize for the first airplane flight across the English Channel, paid French Aeronaut Louis Bleriot $5,000 for buzzing the 31 miles from Calais to Dover in his tiny (25 h.p.) monoplane in 37 minutes. Last week the Daily Mail could think of no better way to celebrate the anniversary than to have a cross-Channel race, this time between London...
Tennis, Everyone? Author Golden has a Negro bartender-chauffeur now and a packed lecture schedule, but otherwise seems little altered by his success (or by the disclosure last year that he had once served a prison term for mail fraud). Golden believes he is successful because not only Jews but others can identify themselves with his stories: "Until now, writers of immigrant literature treated it all like a case history. Some were frankly ashamed of it. They made out like it was mysterious, and something the quicker over with the better. I came along and told the same story without...
...President's goal, as Democrats found out in reading the mail from their constituents, proved to be astonishingly popular. In doing what he thought best for the nation's economic health, Dwight Eisenhower apparently was giving the people just what they wanted...
...Medico, a division of the International Rescue Committee, which persuaded U.S. drug manufacturers to donate $100,000 worth of medicines, other U.S. manufacturers to supply $40,000 worth of equipment and surgical instruments. A Stanford classmate agreed to go as resident physician-at $200 a month. By mail, Njoroge organized a committee in Kenya that persuaded tribesmen to donate land, materials and labor for the hospital. The hospital will be built in the village of Chania, 30 miles northeast of Nairobi, will be free for Africans, whose fellow tribesmen may contribute to hospital bills by bartering produce or working...
Thus Johann Wolfgang von Goethe saluted the new nation across the seas. In the century and a half since then, Americans have become much more accustomed to polemic peltings than to poetic praise from Europe, but the latest literary mail carries an eloquently Goethian fan letter. Dominican Raymond Leopold Bruckberger's love for the U.S. is not blind: in the last decade, the French priest, author (One Sky to Share), artist and Resistance hero, has traveled all over the U.S. Inevitably, some of what he has to say has been said before, but rarely has it been said more...