Word: considerably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ As well as anyone, Committeeman Haight should know that it was Governor Earl Warren, not G.O.P. committeemen, who revived the Republican Party in California. Let him consider his own negative salesmanship of the GOParty: twice he deserted Republican ranks to run for governor on the Progressive and Commonwealth tickets...
Last week, as "Operation North" rolled out of Dawson Creek on the first lap of its 2,000-mile Alcan tour, General Worthington said: "We are not pointing the finger at any nation . . . but we have to consider if any enemy exists, just where he would come and why."* At...
Out went all the usual cartoons, quips, verse, chichi shopping notes and critical departments. The entire issue, except for entertainment guides up front, was given over to a 30,000-word doomsday documentary on Hiroshima, by John (A Bell for Adano) Hersey. An editorial box explained that "everyone might well...
"It's Rotten." Most coaches played dumb, professed not to know what the General was talking about. Only one, Coach Jess Neely of Rice, conceded that "the General might be right." The black market in footballers was so open that officials from 200 colleges who recently met in Chicago...
¶ Leningrad, ruled by Politburo Member Andrei Zhdanov, was waging an esthetic purge. Two outstanding literary figures, Poetess Anna Akhmatova and Mikhail Zoshchenko (whom many Russians consider their best short story writer since Chekhov), were barred from all Soviet publications for "decadence" and "rotten lack of ideology." The literary magazine...