Word: missed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Miss Doris La Rue, who injured another woman when she tossed assorted furnishings out of a Detroit hotel window during a Willkie parade (TIME, Oct. 14), was not on Relief last week. Having resigned her RFC job, she was looking for another, expecting to find one. Out on bond, she was also awaiting trial on a charge of felonious assault...
...Recently Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo of Mississippi asserted that Wendell Willkie's father had once lived in Columbus, Miss, under an assumed name: "John Stover." Last week indignant Willkie Democrats of Mississippi offered to give $1,000 to the Red Cross if anyone could prove it. At Columbus, 80-year-old Historian E. R. Hopkins cracked: "Senator Bilbo says a lot of things besides his prayers...
...Rosemary Hall celebrated its 50th anniversary. Between those two events there was more than a timely connection. Like swank Groton, Rosemary Hall, a swank girls' school in leafy Greenwich, Conn., has been ruled from its beginning by one person. And like Groton's Peabody, Rosemary's Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees (pronounced R'Treece) is in a class by herself among U. S. headmistresses...
...Junction City, Kans.; George W. Webber '42, Des Moines, Ia.; Richard L. Weinberg '43, Memphis, Tenn.; Emanuel G. Weiss '41, Elkins Park, Pa.; Floyd G. Werner '43, Ottawa, III.; Homer C. Wick, Jr. '41, Washington, D. C.; William H. Witt '41, Seattle, Wash.; and Joseph M. Young '43, Greenville, Miss...
...rate in the poorest radio laugh-show. It belongs to a comic old knight, still able to raise cain, but really as antiquated and useless as the England which is giving way to new commerce and "new men" like the ambitious Malvolio. And rather than the "robust comedy" which Miss Hughes wants, the mellowness and restraint of Norman Lloyd and Mark Smith seemed to me a perfect interpretation...