Word: mo
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Sirs: In reference to your article on William E. Borah, may I commend you on your splendid tribute to a splendid American? WILLIAM H. WEBSTER Webster Groves, Mo...
Sirs: "Pratt-fallen" (re Sonja)&151;a gem of journalese and a first class howl. However, . . . only one t. . . . R. L. SUTTON, JR. Kansas City, Mo...
Some French fliers went Herr Goring one better for gallantry. Virginia Van Devander, 17, dark-eyed freshman at Park College in Parkville, Mo., has been practicing her French by writing letters as a marraine (godmother) to one Gilbert La Planche, 18, French aviator now in active service near the Maginot Line. Allowed to choose the name of their squadron, Gilbert's mates took his suggestion arid the name "Escadrilie Virginia." Virginia had her picture taken knitting a sweater for her gallant, unseen Gilbert...
...foggy and icy in St. Louis, Mo., one morning a month ago. Even crows were walking. Fogbound at St. Louis Airport was small, pert, impish Leo Herbert Rich, industrial consultant. With a pocketful of proxies he had flown from New York City to make a fight at a stockholders' meeting of Barnsdall Refining Corp. The meeting was in Tulsa that afternoon, and unless he got there in time, a deal was going through whereby the individual stockholders were going to be reduced to a mere 13% minority and control of the company was going to return to Barnsdall Refining...
Said rufous, middle-aged Josephine Dillon (recently employed as dramatic coach by Christian College, Columbia, Mo.) of Clark Gable, her 1923-30 husband, in Gone With the Wind: "The part calls for a big, dashing, handsome man who can really act. I saw my ex-husband in the part and he was magnificent. He hasn't forgotten a thing I taught...