Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could easily afford to admit some boners. In the Bay area, parrot-beaked Herb Caen, 31, has a more devoted following than any syndicated columnist, and in the Chronicle he far outdraws Drew Pearson and Billy Rose, the only outsiders Editor Paul Smith prints. Smith has found out what many papers could confirm if they only tried,: a good local column doesn't have to be brilliantly written (Caen's isn't) to outshine all the syndicators that money...
...days in the Teens when Literary Digest and Punch drew the tinkle of coin. Old-faces Crimson, Advocate, and Lampoon remain top attractions, although he confesses to selected clientele that the latter has fallen off considerably since the University's Golden Day. Education-admirer Felix, of course, does not admit to difference between the Harvard of today's Postwar and the Harvard of the Roaring Twenties. He has not looked for the trappings of opulence hut rather for the constant Knowledge. There is really nothing incongruous about this little man's carrying on a twenty-minute chat with Dean Pound...
...Crown in London, was once regarded as an outpost of the Old World. But now, Canada would be welcomed as another Anglo-Saxon voice at a predominantly Latin table. The constitution of the Pan American Union can easily be changed at the Bogota conference this year to admit the Dominion...
...will be purely academic to travelers unless they have their space already allotted. Practically all ships are booked solid to September, with few cancellations coming in. Example: for the 852 berths on its three ships, Holland America Line has a waiting list of 10,000. Most ship operators frankly admit that only one out of every 25 applicants can expect to get to Europe or return via ship. But passage on airlines is easy to get now, will probably be harder to get this summer...
...countrymen, most of them veterans of Norway's underground, and led them to Peru. There they were joined by a Swedish anthropologist. Their daring plan: to sail to Tahiti. 5,000 miles from Callao. If they make Tahiti safely, the world's anthropologists will have to admit that ancient Peruvians could have done...