Word: blue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desk . . . [when] I happened to glance at your hypnotic "The Finest Time of the Year" [TIME, Oct. 11]. I got as far as "First graders brought home cutout paper pumpkins," and fled from the factory for a personal survey of Dubuque County under "October's bright blue sky" . . . I found everything in this part of the Upper Mississippi Valley as advertised in your excellent paper. The sumac along the river bluffs is in excellent shape, "the greatest corn crop in history" awaits picking, down in Nine Mile Island slough the advance guard of "honkers," a small band of mallards...
...highest-level hitchhike in history.") Next day he conferred with sprightly Foreign Minister Schuman in Paris; the next, with tired, grumpy Foreign Minister Bevin in London; and a day and a half later, he was back in Washington, holding a press conference. He was natty in a dark blue suit but he needed a shave...
...Good Omen. At the end, just in front of the university macebearer, came General Ike himself, wearing the hood of an honorary LL.D. (trimmed in purple, for Law, and lined in blue & white, for Columbia). A ripple of applause followed Eisenhower down the aisle; he grinned at old friends like General Omar Bradley and Admiral Thomas C. Kincaid, and saluted Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch...
...formal evening wear, bright blue is preferred. Black and navy blue develop fuzzy edges...
Freeman has a quartermaster's command of the immense body of historical material he works with. His researcher's notes on white, blue, pink and yellow slips are arranged to correspond to the biographical plan he has carefully outlined in his notebooks. By the use of an ingenious system of numbers and symbols he can turn to any scrap of material he needs in a matter of seconds. After he has written a chapter, he "lets it cool" for a month and then his revisions always "cut the first draft to pieces." After the fourth typing he sticks...