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Another character is Indian Chieftain Tishomingo, a wizard with a bullwhip, who had spent his life trying to invent a Choctaw alphabet, and succeeded. Tishomingo has some of the fabulous charm which Fenimore Cooper gave his aborigines. And the last days and death of tough old Sam Dabney skirt the edge of really good romancing, only now & then breaking bounds to snatch a slice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books, Aug. 3, 1942 | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...been solved: 1) Don Nelson was reported to have asked the President to choose between him and the armed forces as the final authority over raw materials flow; 2) WPB pushed two new high-preference ratings (AAA and AA-1) into the bottlenecked top of its priorities alphabet. Including AA-2, there are now three emergency-preference categories ahead of the highest priority rating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIORITIES: Purp and the Alphabet | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...first sight, the innocent Freshman would think that Harvard, with its welter of governing boards, is a combination of American alphabet soup and British bureaucratic verbosity. Actually, the organization contains a clear hierarchy of authority from Student Council up through the all-powerful Board of Overseers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mighty Corporation Supervises University | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...Administration is going to have another fling at making sense of its patchwork of press and information bureaus. Plans for it were cooking last week. It was a plan of Rooseveltian caliber; and it added more alphabet to the soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: More Alphabet | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

More important initials in the new alphabet soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: The Begats | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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