Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II equivalent of the homemade crystal set (circa 1920) with its galena rock and cat's whisker, turned up in force on the Anzio Beachhead. One of hundreds of U.S. infantrymen who made foxhole receivers to kill time and boredom at Anzio, Lieut. M. L. Rupert, sent a diagram and description of the set to the Marlin Firearms Co. (razor blades, etc.). Wrote...
...idealized, the Selznick characterizations are authentic to a degree seldom achieved in Hollywood. When a high-school graduating class sings America the Beautiful, the voices are touchingly inchoate, the singers' faces as stolidly reverent, and the shot of the Lincoln statue which begins the song and the meowing cat which ends it, are a deft, valid blend of showmanship, humor and yard-wide Americanism. The wounded men in Since You Went Away really look wounded, for almost the first time in a U.S. fiction war film. There are scores of such evidences of a smart showman...
...farm at Pawling, New York's dapper Governor Tom Dewey last week took some time off. As a country squire he supervised the repair of a barn, directed construction of a new gravel road to his 200-year-old farmhouse, played an occasional game of One-o'-Cat with sons Tommy, 11, & Johnny, 8, went daily to the Pawling Country Club for 18 holes of golf. There was little State business; what there was, he disposed of quickly when State Troopers motored down from Albany with documents. He and his handsome wife Frances celebrated their 16th wedding anniversary...
...Souvenir collections (Jap helmet, canteen, gas mask, paper money) are still selling strong in New Britain, asking prices are in fresh eggs, steaks, oranges, canned goods. ¶Wristlets and watch bands made from scrap plane duraluminum, stamped "Guadalcanal," "Tarawa," etc., bring $8 to $15, depending on workmanship. Polished cat's-eye shells, strung as necklaces, range from...
What especially excited Wall Streeters were the symbols which clogged the tickers. A little more than a year ago, Exchange President Emil Schram cried out a warning against the unhealthy boom in the low-priced "cat & dog" stocks (TIME, March 15, 1943). Last week, the "blue chips" led the parade of some 245 stocks onto new high ground. A.T. & T. hit a three-year peak, while Chrysler, Westinghouse, General Motors, Du Pont and many a retail-store stock reached new highs for 1944. And the tone had changed. Grumblers had long complained that every slip of the market meant that...