Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen the article in TIME, June 15 [about Thomas Benton's musical get-togethers]. . . . TIME couldn't have handled our music any better. The only sour comment came from my son T.P. who said, "What the hell do they mean by amateur. Didn't I get $10 an hour for playing...
...large Author Wells sets up his awful, trapped symbol of mass man without benefit or need of comment. But in the last pages he speaks his mind. Tewler m Wells's opinion, is not only the symbol of a class, but of nations. Everywhere the Tewlers of this world have the same desperate deafness to the voice of reason the same vulnerability to the voices of church, state, school, law, wealth, authority m all its forms. Reason: these voices are themselves the voices of the Tewlers Between outsize Tewlers who lead and run-of-the-counter Tewlers who follow...
...publishing Mr. Cutcheon's letter, Barron's editors made the obvious comment that it was an "unusually interesting" idea, but threw cold water on it because of the time element: the war might be over before the line was finished. Mr. Cutcheon, however, had another idea-extending the Alaska highway to Bering Strait and moving freight there by truck. That raised the possibility of a truck route paralleling the rail route all the way to industrial Russia, and perhaps built first...
...That for the sake of diplomacy and international unity, the President had had to watch his beloved Navy lose many a ship, including the cruiser Houston and the aircraft tender Langley-without comment other than his citation of Admiral Hart...
Surrounded by Eric Larrabee '43, Chief Gardener, and John L. Hoffman '43, who fondly caressed several packages of seeds but refused to comment, Allen explained that the move would help to relieve the agricultural shortage. Some of the vegetables will be eaten by the 'Poonsters to cut House Committee expenses, being in line with the "Buy Lampoon" policy instituted last fall...