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...through bottlenecks and red tape with highhanded ease, won kudos for his role in boosting high octane gas output and lending $8 billion in V-Loans to get defense plants humming. When he lacked the right to check on lagging gasoline procurement, he had OEM's Chief Wayne Coy put a slip of paper on the President's desk reading: "Look into high octane gas." F.D.R.'s initials turned it into a badge of authority...
...book, none in 1933; the famous Covered Wagon went thataway permanently after the 1923 catalogue. "Radio apparatus" made its debut in 1919 under "Telegraph instruments." Silk stockings showed up in the 1912 catalogue for the first time, with the warning: "Treat them carefully." Pajamas made a coy appearance in 1899 for men only; twin beds appeared in 1921. Women's fleece-lined bloomers and men's congress gaiters (high shoes with elastic inserts, no laces) held on as late as 1939, then followed the fur derby into history...
...screen. Goo is, of course, a major ingredient of every Hammerstein libretto, but in Oklahoma!, for instance-even in the movie version, which starred the same two singers (TIME, Oct. 24)-the sentiment was cut with a dash of comic bitters. In this production the players play it so coy that they sometimes seem close to baby talk. Actor MacRae sings pleasantly, though, and so do Shirley Jones and Robert Rounseville...
...four speeches a week to civic and business groups, makes countless public appearances as president of the politically potent University of Georgia alumni association, conducts a weekly TV panel show. Georgia Spotlight, under a local tire company's sponsorship. But for all his activity. Talmadge has been uncommonly coy about making his long-expected announcement of candidacy for the U.S. Senate against Walter F. George. Some Georgians, in fact, have begun to ask if Herman really means...
...President added: "As quickly as my own mind is made up ... I will tell you people very frankly. I have nothing to hide here. I am certainly not trying to be coy ... As soon as I feel that the whole thing is completely clarified and that I can say where the path of duty is ... It is a very critical thing to change governments in this country at a time that it is unexpected. We accustom ourselves, and so do foreign governments, changing our government every four years, but always something happens that is untoward when a government is changed...