Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Customers want lure, and the little boites are adding token chorus lines, the big spots sultrier ones. Even more, customers want laughs: the comics are the town's brightest notes and biggest draws. (Most ubiquitous gag: "My mother-in-law is the Gestapo in bloomers...
Algiers to Teheran. Brightest results are on the press side. The percentage of OWI news in Turkish newspapers has skyrocketed; the Anatolian News Agency in Istanbul has more than doubled its news take. Africa was very backward about U.S. news: four papers in the Union of South Africa took the United Press service; Britain's Reuters went to Cairo. That was the sum total of U.S. news going to the Dark Continent. OWI now sends news, and lots of it, to Algiers, Casablanca, Accra, Brazzaville, Leopoldville, Johannesburg, Asmara and Cairo. The news differs in treatment: that for Sweden...
...brightest spot in Truman's pre-Senate record, was soon followed by the saddest. With a soldier buddy and $15,000 saved and borrowed, he opened a haberdashery on Kansas City's sporty Twelfth Street, roamed behind the counters selling socks, neckties and garters. In twelve months the store went broke, with debts it took years...
...brightly starred, with "room still for such names as Sevastopol and Smolensk and Stalingrad." China gets Cygnus (Chiang Kai-shek for Deneb, Confucius for Albireo, etc.). Germany and Japan get nary a one, but Hitler and Mussolini are placed in the constellation Draco (the Snake) renamed The Tyrants. Sirius, brightest star in the sky, falls in the constellation of South Africa and is called Smuts. There are constellations for the arts, science and for children (with stars for Alice and Peter...
...Diamond is one of the brightest legends in the legend-studded Marine Corps. Accuracy is his passion. He likes to talk about a baseball game at Tientsin in 1934, when a Marine batter hit a line drive that killed a sparrow in flight. In this accident he sees a higher goal for precision marksmen. His other passions are beer, which he guzzles by the case when it is available, and Marine recruits. Youngsters in the Marine Corps fear the grey-maned giant as much as they respect...