Word: amenability
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...Assembly Chairman General Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines, a neat, brisk figure always dressed in immaculate black, was presiding with proud relish when he got the news of the year. A U.S. correspondent passed him a note: "President Truman has just announced that Russia has the atom bomb. Amen." Trygve Lie, at Romulo's side, scribbled a quick reply: "If true, it makes the U.N. all the more indispensable." Then he sat back to await Andrei Vishinsky's scheduled address...
...kill his wife (see THE HEMISPHERE). The Trib also smugly reminded readers that Colonel McCormick was already building a bombshelter for himself and his staffers. The New York Daily News wrote the day's most heartfelt headline, a prayerful play on words: U.S. HAS SUPREMACY, WILL HOLD IT : AMEN. The Communist Worker combined propaganda, craftsmanship and a sly smile: TRUMAN: U.S.S.R. HAS IT; VISHINSKY...
Last week Iowa-born Scripter-Novelist Kent explained to the New York Herald Tribune what makes Portia and other sudsy heroines click: "Every soap-opera heroine ... is, by definition, a much stronger person than her husband or any man in her orbit . . . Possibly the Amen can woman feels actually so dependent, economically and emotionally, on her husband that she has to appease her insecurity by identifying herself with one or more soap-opera heroines whose husbands can have no secrets from them . . . [This heroine], swayed, as she is always saying, only by her love for her husband and children...
Pidgin belong you, Big Fella Strong belong You, Light belong You altogether day. Amen...
...Godin will oppose Ted Griesinger on the mound and attempt to keep Harvard in the running for second or third place in the EIBL. Ed Foynes and Chuck Roche may appear in left and right field respectively if Amen tosses a left-hander at the Crimson. Otherwise, John Caulfield and Herbie Neal will play. ARMY HARVARD Stuff, cf Dunn, ss Metzger, lf Foynes or Mackmull, 3b Caulfield,cf Winfield, rf Rocheor Neal, rf Irons, c Coulson, 1b Galiffa, 1b Moffie, cf Lobe, 2b Huntington, 2b Dolan, ss Mannino, 3b Griesfinger, p Crosby, c Godin...