Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jasper is a little Negro boy who can't stay away from the forbidden land of his mammy's melon patch. Hearing of a country where melons are free, he goes there with his scarecrow informer. But the melons aren't free, after all, and after he eats one of them, the other melons run him straight back to his mammy. Moral: don't talk to scarecrows...
Bing Crosby ripped the seat of his pants at the Western Open Championship golf tournament. From the gallery-largest in Arizona history-a sympathetic fan darted out on the green, did a quick patch-up with his spectator's badge...
Died. Alice Hegan Rice, 72, author of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, wife of Poet Cale Young Rice; in Louisville, Ky. Published in 1901, the gently humorous story of a down-at-heels widow and her five children stayed among the leading-best-sellers for years afterward. It was Mrs. Rice's first novel. Dramatized, it became a longtime stock-company standby. The book was translated into half a dozen foreign languages...
Franklin Roosevelt, who occasionally talks through his hat but more often pulls rabbits out of it, last week pulled out a rabbit and threw him into the brier patch of Civilian Defense. The fierce-looking rabbit: hawk-faced, hawk-eyed James McCauley ("Chink") Landis, Dean of Harvard Law School. A precocious Princetonian and one of the keenest legal eaglets ever to swoop from Harvard Law School, Dean Landis was an early Brain Truster, as SEC chairman presided over a whipped Wall Street...
Inside OCD's brier patch Fiorello LaGuardia was bounding around like a snarled-up bandersnatch, uttering encouraging yells, while the briers made rips in his reputation. Butch himself admitted that he might be attempting too much, trying to run New York City and OCD all at once. A lot of people were sure of it -the House of Representatives, for one lot. Flatly rejecting the Senate's liberal plan to give OCD unlimited funds, the House voted to appropriate $100,000,000 but to put the Army in charge of spending it. For Butch, not a nickel...