Word: curtness
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...Britain's military governor in occupied Germany, he was a model of soldierly efficiency. "We must be firm to the point of ruthlessness," he declared. "If accomodation is urgently needed for a large group of D.P.s, the local mayor is given a curt order to clear the needed dwellings, the inhabitants being given five minutes to get out." Once, when cynical British army clerks in Brussels expressed doubt over the authenticity of atrocity stories about Belsen, Templer sent them over to the horror camp in trucks and made them shovel corpses as an object lesson...
...Other Winchells. The busiest of these unpaid, unsung legmen, as the Post tells it, are Pressagents Ed Weiner, Curt Weinberg and Irving Hoffman. Weiner is the columnist's "lobbyist, contact-man, straight-man-about-town"; Hoffman is a columnist for the Hollywood Reporter; Weinberg was Singer Josephine Baker's drum beater until the Stork Club incident, then Weinberg hastily dropped her. Also chased from the Winchell closet was another figure that few other ghosts even knew about: Herman Klurfeld, 35, who sticks close to his Long Island home and is paid a reported $250 a week by Winchell...
...expected cry of pain arose from the Ivy Circuit this week when several Ivy colleges got a curt snub from the Big Three. The athletic mouthpieces of these venerable institutions had their feelings hurt in no small way by Messrs. Conant, Griswold, and Dodds, who issued their athletic purity statement last Sunday as a Triparte Pact. The pained outcries come from two football camps...
There is good reason for the professional pride which shows through Deibel's curt shop talk. He wears a red C.F.C. badge above his visor for his twelve-year safety record. He's proud too (but wears no badge for it) of his regular, five-year-long assignment to haul TIME. TIME's schedules are known to be so tough that 48 trucking companies from coast to coast use their TIME contracts to get other fast-delivery business...
...broadcast of today's game will be carried by WHDH (650 on the radle dial), starting at 1:45 p.m. Curt Gowdy will give the play-by-play description...