Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fresh-water race; in her first try; outsailing 24 other Class A cruising entries and finishing eleven hours ahead of her nearest rival. A recent refugee from East Coast racing, White Cloud made the 331 miles (steamer route) in 38 hr. 14 min. 5 sec., fastest time since 1911. Absent from the helm was Owner Sorensen, Ford's production chief, too busy to take three days off even for his favorite pastime...
They laid out three overall divisions. Gardner Cowles Jr., absent-eyed but able publisher of the Des Moines Register and Tribune and Look, president of Iowa Broadcasting Co., a new face on the official Washington scene, was brought in to head the OWI branch on domestic news. Sad-faced, elongated Playwright Robert Sherwood takes over the dissemination of over seas news. Archibald MacLeish, whose OFF had been swallowed up in the reorganization, becomes head of the "Policy Development Branch." His job: relationships between OWI, the policy-forming officials of Federal agencies, and between OWI and representatives of the United Nations...
Tricky Campaigner Burton Wheeler, now estivating at his Glacier Park cabin, (thus "necessarily absent" from Senate roll calls), has once before jumped over to the Republican Party to beat an enemy. That was in 1938, when he backed Jakie Thorkelson to oust Representative Jerry O'Connell. Last week Montanans wondered whether Senator Wheeler, in the event Murray and Rankin are nominated, would again cross party lines. They wondered, too, on what issues Wheeler could campaign...
...stage in search of either a cigarette or an ash-tray in a manner that resembles Mac West imitating Katie Hepburn. This is a great shame, since Miss Swanson has a definite personality of her own which appears all too infrequently. When the influence of the director is apparently absent, she does a very fine job, particularly in the opening of the third act. Her limited knowledge of the stage permitted the director to run wild and consequently destroy the reality of the play. Unfortunately he succeeds in impairing the performances of almost all the actors with the shining exceptions...
...expiration date of a Foreign Office protest demanding "complete satisfaction" and a guarantee of reparations for the sinking of the Mexican freighter Potrero del Llano, torpedoed off the Florida coast. The Chamber of Deputies approved, 183-to-0, the Senate 53-to-0 (with five members absent...