Explorer Writer Prepares Latin America Guides Under Rockefeller Backing
Earl Parker Hanson, German-born American explorer and geographer, works on two volumes of Latin American country guides sponsored by the Nelson Rockefeller committee. The 800000-word project blends travel material with cultural and historical discussion to reach readers including teachers.
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York
Europe
Karl Baedeker
Baedeker
Earl Parker Hanson
Nelson Rockefeller
Hanson
Mr. Hanson
Berlin
University of Wisconsin
University of Chicago
Iceland
Stefansson
Carnegie Institution
Amazon
Orinoco
Manaus
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Mother writes clever excuse after snow day note
A mother responds to a school's demand for a written excuse after a heavy snow storm. She signs as Mrs. Franklin Sylvester Johnson, noting her son Eddie's legs measure 14 inches and the snow depth was 18 inches. The anecdote plays on a lawyer Moseby and a suitcase irony.
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Miss Kitty
Little Eddie
Franklin Sylvester Johnson
Dialogue on Roosevelts Eight Points and War Imagery
In Athens a street is to be renamed Rue de la Paperhanger under Nazi orders. The piece compares political theater to golf, noting Roosevelt Churchill eight points, a possible ninth, and public reactions. It blends wartime satire with references to Churchill Stalin Hitler and Roosevelt.
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Luke Twitchell
Elmer
Wilson
Roosevelt
Woodrow
Luke
Churchill
British Empire
London
United States
Washington
Gabriel Heatter
McCoy
Hitler
Winston
Frankie
Uncle Sam
John Bull
Athens
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Doan
Growth in Silence and the Rise of Great Things
A compact meditation on how quiet development shapes grand outcomes. The passage reflects on patience and unseen growth as the forge of achievement, leading to eventual prominence and influence in life.
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Carlyle
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Radio Corporation of America
Jefferson
Mr. Young
White House
Boston
St. Lawrence University
Gerald C. Brant
Houston
Texas
Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center
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Iowa
OUR Comic
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C. M. Payne
Relf Syndicate
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J. Millar Watt
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Lew Fal Phillips
John Powers
Friends of Freedom
Sea Huddle
Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde
Spencer Tracy
Babs Morgan
Rome
Martin Ragaway
Mussolini
Carl Holmquist
Luke and
J. Fuller
By Jerry Link
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Disraeli
Bellans
Thomas Davidson
Wwicer
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