Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when a radio mike was set before him at a Washington press conference. He put the mike on the floor and his foot on the mike (see cut). His explanation: "I can't talk freely if this is to be broadcast." Mutual broadcast some of the muffled flubdub anyway, presented it as "what Henry Wallace sounds like talking out of his left foot...
...recorded parody of Welles in action. Impressed, Orson let the youngster repeat the parody on his Mercury Sum mer Theater program and invited Markle to Hollywood to do a screen version of Oscar Wilde's Salome. The production fell through, but Markle is disgusted with movies, anyway, and with "that terrible place" (Hollywood). If movies could be made in "civilized" New York, he thinks he might have another go at them...
...these betwixt-&-betweeners, Brown University was doing its best last week. At Providence, R.I., it had set up a new Veterans College, where 437 ex-G.I.s and eight women who could not meet regular admissions standards were getting a crack at a college education anyway. Some of them had never finished high school, others had barely skidded through with less than the customary 15 college-entrance units. Most of them had applied to a university and been turned down flat...
...Vienna, where they don't care for machines anyway, the Socialist Arbeiterzeitung declared: "His creation, the production line . . . reminds us of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, which showed the ridiculous and tragic power of Fordismus over man. . . . Thus Ford was not a friend but an enemy of the worker...
Some demands for wage boosts would have been made anyway, but now they will be higher, and pressed with more insistence. The International Woodworkers of America (C.I.O.-C.C.L.) are out for a minimum of $1.01 an hour (a 20? increase) and a 40-hour week, and getting set to strike for it. Other unions are sharpening their demands. The recent hope that 1947 might pass with no more major strikes is fading...