Word: begin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite these activities, the Senator is still an early riser, getting to his office at 8, whisking swiftly through documents and mail before the committee hearings begin at 10. In the Senate club, he is, by & large, a lone wolf. He is living proof that a man can be a successful politician and public servant without being a backslapper. He has his dignity. He is not athletic, likes starchy foods, smokes a box of Sano (denicotinized) cigars a week, and has almost no hobbies...
G.l.s in Japan. General Lord's real job will begin when the High Command gives the orders to transship the ground forces which will be finally needed to conquer and occupy Japan. How soon that will be was anyone's guess. General Eisenhower operated last week as though he had never heard of a war against Japan. Ships still carried replacements to Europe. In Eisenhower's theater or on the way were enough replacements to take care of several months of heavy fighting...
...Begin After Discharge...
These men will begin work on their Fellowship projects when they are discharged from the armed forces. Also granted a post-service Fellowship was Leo L. Beranek, director of Research on Sound Control and currently engaged in war research here. Otto Benesch, a research fellow at the Fogg Museum of Art, has been awarded his second Guggenheim Fellowship, which goes into effect immediately...
...world which is in many respects more rational than the one it ribs, and any amount more entertaining-a world in which children are hideously overeducated and essentially very sinister; lawyers (notably Cruikshank-like John Carradine) are crooks who will not only not stop at murder but prefer to begin with it; gangsters (William Bendix et al.) hold stockholders' meetings as punctiliously as any other big businessmen; the high priest of the mysteries exhumed by Sigmund Freud is a wild-eyed goon (Jerry Colonna) who can't stop slapping his own face. There is also a capitalist (Robert...