Word: auge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months Radioman Allen Funt and a concealed microphone have been catching unsuspecting people with their mouths open. The sometimes hilarious results have been broadcast on ABC's Candid Microphone (TIME, Aug. 18)-a program (thus far unsponsored) as fascinating as any other form of eavesdropping...
Crossfire (American). A lucky combination (talent, front-office permission, a low budget, a rushed shooting schedule, and a subject worth feeling strongly about -anti-Semitism) produced the year's most vivid melodrama (TIME, Aug...
James V. Forrestal, Secretary of Defense, erased himself from Democratic dopesters' tickets. He took back publicly what he had privately told some friends-that he would be glad to be Harry Truman's vice-presidential candidate (TIME, Aug. 25). Said Forrestal: "I've never taken myself seriously as a political glamor character. Even with both ears to the ground, I've never heard the faintest suggestion of even a distant drumbeat...
Stanley Baldwin was born Aug. 3, 1867 in Wilden, Worcestershire, the town where his great-grandfather in the late 18th Century had started the family fortune by building an iron foundry. Baldwin's nurse, to assure his success, climbed to the attic with the newborn baby, stood on a chair, and raised him toward the roof...
...found him in Hungary, put him up in the best hotel in Vienna, gave him a box at the ballet. The Russians assured Romola that Nijinsky would be welcomed in Russia as a hero of the Soviet Union. Once they got him drunk, and Nijinsky danced for them (TIME, Aug. 20, 1945). But Romola wanted to take him to western Europe...