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Good lord, what a boner for TIME ! In the March 3 issue you say: "Franklin Roosevelt worked last week, like a sailor polishing brass, whistling as he worked." Franklin Roosevelt is a good sailor and no sailor whistles while he works. "Only fools and bos'n's mates whistle in the Navy...
...TIME made Franklin Roosevelt a whistling sailor only as a figure of speech to show his mood as the Lend-Lease Bill neared port, assigned him to no particular rating such as a bos'n's mate...
Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben (Helen Traubel, soprano, with Pianist Coenraad V. Bos; Victor: 8 sides; $3.75). Romantic Robert Schumann wrote Woman's Love and Life-eight songs to poems by Chamisso-to hymn domestic love. Warm-voiced Soprano Traubel puts proper schmalz in such lines as (to a wedding ring) I place thee, holy object, upon my lips, my heart...
Last week the National Association of Chiropodists (Podiatrists) met in Bos ton to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of their science. As chairman of the meeting they elected their beaming, balding host - old Nehemiah's nephew, Harry, who practices in Boston. At the convention the chiropodists orated on the "romance" and "epochal" contributions of chiropody, the "divine discontent" of Nehemiah Kenison...
...stifled cheer; the President's big right hand went up in the air and the big smile flashed in recognition. There was the usual 21-gun salute barked from the shore batteries as the President crossed the dock-level gangplank; there was the usual trilling of the bos'n's whistle piping the President over the side as eight boys stood at attention; the four-starred flag of the Commander in Chief of the Army & Navy was broken out at the mainmast; a bugle sounded, bluejackets scurried about the decks, the big gasoline motors began to roar...