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...Democratic bosses brayed that their party holds the sole patent on liberalism. The delegates, most of whom went to Albany in a nervous chill of defeatism, were warmed by the appearance of Eleanor Roosevelt as keynoter, gave her an affectionate ovation, cheered her as she struck another campaign chord: the G.O.P. is the party of "backward conservatives...
Movie background music has come a long way since the days when a loud chord went with a slammed door, a descending scale with a man falling downstairs. Whether it has gone far enough to be music in its own right, few music critics are willing to assert. But last week two scores by Hollywood's No. 1 sound-track composer, Miklos Rozsa, were fast-moving items. His Spellbound Concerto, adapted from his Oscar-winning music for Spellbound, had sold 100,000 sets at $4 each; his Lost Weekend music was one of Victor's top ten "semi...
...sackful of mail we have received from you is any indication, the story of "The Turbo-Encabulator in Industry" struck many a responsive chord. Aside from those of you who wanted to be reassured that TIME hadn't been taken in, we received the customary complaints about using too much technical jargon for the layman, observations such as "My husband says it sounds like a new motor; I say it sounds like a dictionary that has been struck by lightning"; suggestions that it "might have come out of the mouth of Danny Kaye," and plaintive queries like: "Is this...
...soul remained attached by a tenuous chord to his heart within seven feet of his mortal body...
...Indianapolis veterans struck a common-sense common chord: the returned overseas soldier is no nerve-shattered civilian-hater who will explode into violent action if he does not get all he thinks he deserves. Said big (210 Ibs.) 39-year-old ex-Pfc. Carl Emory Rainwater, veteran of three European invasions: "Listen, you turn the fellows loose in the community and in a couple of weeks you wouldn't know that they'd been in the Army." Said a 25-year-old ex-corporal, now a garage mechanic: "Most of the fellows are like me. Just...