Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Parisians spotted the plane's boldly blazoned Free French Cross of Lorraine, they cheered hysterically. They waved and fluttered handkerchiefs from sidewalk, window and rooftop. In a few brief moments an audacious British pilot (Flight Lieut. A. K. Gatward) had transformed the week's sad anniversary into a day of excitement and hope...
India's leaders, especially Mohandas Gandhi, are often badly misunderstood in the West. They are, indeed, not easy for most Western minds to understand. One difficulty is the fact that their statements, as carried in the Western press, are frequently too brief to be illuminating. Below is an extended interview with Gandhi, cabled from India last week by TIME'S Correspondent Jack Belden...
...annual Summer School Convocation will be held Tuesday evening. June 30, at 8 P.M. in Sanders Theatre with provisions for an overflow audience in the New Lecture Hall. The program will include music by the Silberberg Quartet, a brief address of welcome by the Director of the Summer School, an announcement by Mr. Adam Yarmolinsky, Chairman of the War Service Council of Harvard College, and an address by President James Bryant Conant...
Freshman registration, a Memorial Hall rat-race in any year will be crowded to capacity today because of the compressing of what is usually a three-day affair into the brief space of 12 hours...
Pierre Koenig, tall, blue-eyed, blond, German of name and physique but French as only a Foreign Legionnaire can be, read the note. The smile he habitually wears faded, and his officers saw one of his brief furies mount. He scrawled on the note a single French word: Merde (obscenity). Then he called for a German prisoner, gave him the note and sent him out to find Rommel...