Word: becks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Thomas H. Beck announced that he had in the works a mass-circulation "international magazine," was talking it up with prospective "associate publishers" abroad. It would look like Collier's, would be edited...
Recorded sound, Ozneedle Beck...
...often get to the White House-is a more intimate confidant. George Allen is urbane and companionable, has a fund of funny stories which Harry Truman likes to hear. While others may be busy with official chores, ever-ready George Allen is always at the President's beck & call. When Harry Truman takes an afternoon dip in the White House pool, Allen usually splashes around with...
...quarry of monstrous guilt. A half-century ago, on a vacation, he crossed Lake Constance, and remembers that the Swiss shore seemed like a part of the great world, as his home was not. There was a taint (he thinks now) in that feeling; and in Lübeck, his home, more than a taint...
...beck youth Mann (now 70) recalls a Germany which, while pretending to universalism, actually lived in "arrogant provincialism . . . the modern nationalistic form, of the old German world-seclusiveness and melancholy world-unfitness . . . cosmopolitanism in a nightcap...