Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tomorrow morning's "Reveille in Swingtime" will be the seventy-fifth edition of the Crimson Network's early morning show beamed Monday through Saturday at Eliot House and V-12, Designed to replace the not-too-popular farm hour, the program presents swing and jazz interspersed with ad lib quips from reveille until the last scheduled breakfast formation...
...occasion was far greater than any words Franklin Roosevelt spoke. As the Senators watched him-perceptibly leaner, slightly stooped over the table, following the text with his forefinger, rubbing his chin when he ad-libbed, occasionally taking a sip of water in a thin hand that patently trembled-they knew that he was talking primarily to them. In numberless ways, Franklin Roosevelt made his main point over & over again: I think Yalta is pretty good; it's not perfect, but it's a good start. I also know that 33 of you, Democrats and Republicans, can band together...
...point the President's voice seemed to give way, as his throat got hoarse. He sipped water, and continued. At all times, he had to battle against the poor acoustics of the hall. Some Administration friends were disturbed at the large amount of ad-libbing, thought that, when doing so, the President's voice seemed hesitant, uncertain. Others thought the ad-libbing increased the informal, chatty air of the talk...
...ad-libs was a roundhouse swing at the "prima donnas" in the world -"there are a great number of prima donnas in the world"-which many interpreted as a swat at Charles de Gaulle, who had refused to meet him at Algiers (TIME, Feb. 26). And in describing his post-Yalta travels he said: "Of the problems of Arabia, I learned more about that whole problem, the Moslem problem, the Jewish problem, by talking with Ibn Saud for five minutes, than I could have learned in exchange of two or three dozen letters...
...grandson of Samuel Bowles, famed independent editor of the Springfield Republican, Bowles came out of The Choate School and Yale with a liberal outlook that satisfies New Dealers and labor. His years as board chairman of Manhattan's plushy ad firm of Benton & Bowles Inc. make him equally acceptable to most businessmen. When he took over OPA in 1943, OPA seemed ready either to 1) fall apart, or 2) be torn apart by baffled housewives, angry businessmen and the Congress. Optimists gave Bowles six weeks...