Word: authorizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become Tom Dewey's running mate. If the Republicans won, the Vice President would have something more to do than just preside over the Senate. Exactly what Warren had in mind (and what Dewey may have promised him) came out last week. A biography of Warren by Author (Lust for Life) Irving Stone describes the plan...
Britain's literary great flocked to Bath. So did every social climber. Eighteenth Century Author Tobias Smollett, for one, sometimes looked with bilious eye at "what is called the fashionable company at Bath . . .† The number of people, and the number of houses continue to increase; and this will ever be the case, till the streams that swell this irresistible torrent of folly and extravagance shall either be exhausted or turned into other channels, by incidents and events which I do not pretend to foresee...
...Trombonist Georg Brunis, Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and powerhouse Negro Drummer Zutty Singleton. In the cult-ridden, vociferous world of hot jazz, Hackett became an overnight sensation. Erudite Manhattan jazzophiles went learnedly ga-ga over Hackett's musical kinship to the late great Bix Beiderbecke. Author Dorothy (Young Man With a Horn) Baker came night after night to listen and finally, to Hackett's considerable embarrassment, to write a moony, swoony tribute to his "dignity" in Vogue...
Roll Back the Sea is a hard-working attempt to make fiction of their achievement. Its author, A. Den Doolaard (real name, Cornelus Spoelstra) is a 47-year-old Dutch journalist, author of Express to the East (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935), who "meddled in underground work," escaped to England and became chief of the Dutch government's broadcasts. After the liberation of Holland he was posted on Walcheren as liaison officer between the Dutch department of dike repairs and the Royal Engineers...
...admirer of Pussy and Lovey, and his book explains his friendship and admiration. It doesn't explain (no one has, convincingly) why Stein-worshipers such as Thornton Wilder regard her as one of the most brilliant conversationalists of our time. It contains sections of literary approval of Author Stein's writings, but its main aim, which it fulfills very well, is to show why so many people, from Picasso to the average G.I., found Pussy and Lovey such a fascinating and lovable pair...