Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish I had the space to sketch the backgrounds of some of the other editors and writers who have joined us in recent months. But perhaps these examples will serve to show you the kind of newsmen we are trying to add to TIME'S staff in these days when it is so much harder to gather the news and make sure it all adds up to a true picture of world events...
...civilian survey within the camps to ascertain the number of prisoners who would actually profit by democratic education. This, too, Secretary Stimson vetoed. He declared that the War Department has for some time followed the practice of segregating co-operative from non-cooperative prisoners and that a survey could add nothing to the present information or methods. "On the contrary," he said, "it probably would create suspicion and dissatisfaction ... and defeat the very purpose you have in mind...
Clifton Webb excels in the role of Mr. Laedecker, a gentleman who combines the virtues of Walter Winchell, Alexander Woolcott, and Tommy Manville. Miss Tierney turns in a good performance, mainly because her part calls for very few lines and many closeups. Vincent Price and Judith Anderson add to the general atmosphere and manage to get involved in the proceedings...
...Special Word. May I just add a special word of praise in favor of your colored troops. What we had heard of them had not been favorable, but although we had hundreds in the area at odd times, and although I see them every day out here, I have never heard of any unpleasant incidents. They seem to get quite a lot of fun out of life without annoyance to anyone. They're very well-behaved, polite and quiet, in fact, good Americans...
...Coliseum, and I was interested in watching the crowd as it trekked across the Park. High-school youngsters (nonvoters) were present in droves, and we saw a great many families (with three or four children, some toddlers) hurrying to get there in time for the glamorous entertainment promised. Add to these the hundreds of adults who, regardless of politics, would walk miles to see a Hollywood star, and we have a crowd made up, in great part, of movie admirers, not Dewey voters. "Ginger Rogers will introduce" were magic words. Yes, it was the stars (their attendance advertised days...