Word: booth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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GEORGE H. BOOTH...
Most of you have already read TIME'S accounts of the recent tours of New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Ohio's Robert A. Taft. Our correspondents who accompanied them were Robert Elson, chief of Time Inc.'s Washington bureau, and Win Booth, who ordinarily covers the White House. By comparison with the usual grand tours of Presidential nominees after the Republican and Democratic conventions, these tours were in the nature of family excursions. Nevertheless, says Elson, who went along with the Taft party, "Booth and I got closer to the men, their families...
Aside from the problem of how to get your laundry done (usually solved by buying new haberdashery), Elson and Booth encountered others that will become standard when next year's campaign gets under way. One was how to keep up with the men they were covering and still find time to write good, readable daily copy for TIME'S editors. Booth got considerable practice writing his on a jouncing portable balanced on his knees in a chartered bus. Elson found that between midnight and dawn in the privacy of his Pullman bedroom was the best time...
...story is told in terms of the small disappointments and triumphs of high-school concerts and dances, the large horrors of quarrelsome family dinners. At its best, it is pleasantly reminiscent of the late Booth Tarkington. At its worst, it slops over with such cheap laughs as the writhings of a tuxedoed adolescent with a recalcitrant shirt front. M-G-M is thinking of condemning pretty Elizabeth Taylor to the salt mines-or gold mines-of a Cynthia series, a la Andy Hardy...
...tiny Summer statue appears near the Harvard Square information booth, just as it does today; and John Harvard, in front of University Hall, sits as solemnly in miniature as he does lifesize...