Word: corking
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...shattered Japs reeling back abandoning much equipment. The pressure on MacArthur's left promptly relaxed. On his 62nd birthday this week Douglas MacArthur was still chipper, still bucking up, his men by visits to his fronts. He said: "The enemy may hold the bottle, but I hold the cork...
...Keyes with 30 men made his way to a wadi, near Sidi Raffa, Administrative H.Q. of Rommel's Afrika Corps. Here they lay for two days and nights awaiting the zero hour of the Brit ish attack. When the time came the Commandos daubed their faces with burnt cork, crawled over the desert to the German headquarters building...
...aged, but not altered. Gone, to be sure (except when he donned them for one nostalgic inning when he pitched Margie and If You Knew Susie into a waiting audience's lap), were the burnt cork and the white-rimmed goggles. But the eyes still popped, the voice still beckoned, the legs still scissored as though in time with an incredibly fast march. More of an imp than a comic, more of a song salesman than a singer, more of a ground-coverer than a hoofer, Eddie Cantor still rated the big time for his invaluable gift of always...
...dumpy, melon-headed promoter from Manhattan, Frank Cohen, who in 18 months had puffed up a $5,000 investment into an ordnance empire with assets of more than $6,000,000 (TIME, Nov. 3). One was Franklin Roosevelt's old friend Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran. One was a lanky, jug-eared bureaucrat, Charles Franklin West, who no longer has a bureau...
...committee handled Tommy the Cork with the greatest delicacy, was seemingly satisfied with his explanation...