Word: doorsteps
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...Last June, he publicly snapped his fingers at Hitler's threat to cancel his birthday celebration, said: "It was not I who started the war" (TIME, July 17). Even then, the Kultur-conscious Nazis, considering his prestige valuable to Germany, let him be. As the war approached his doorstep, the aged composer continued to cultivate his musical garden...
...Clamp. The millions of Berliners who could not fight, those who did not want to fight now that doom was on the doorstep, milled in panic. They surged to the Ringbahn, fought each other to get on the last trains to anywhere. They massed in the air-raid shelters, choked the Unter-grundbahn platforms and tracks. Stunned, they huddled wherever they could find shelter and waited...
...them make needed supplies with their own manpower. During the peace to come, it will be better to be paid for goods that still have useful life than 1) to write them off or 2) to take them back to add to the postwar surpluses on the U.S. doorstep...
...Strongs). Then he taught them the great Negro anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing. And then he asked them to escort the Strongs home. Some 135 of the congregation's 175 did. Throop Street heard them coming: they were all singing the anthem. At the Strongs' doorstep they formed a circle. Curious neighbors leaning out of their windows saw the minister give the Strongs a Bible, heard him preach another sermon on tolerance...
...hope it lasts." When 28-year-old Van Johnson steps out to fetch his milk off the doorstep these morings, he runs the chance of finding, as well, some disarming child in bobby socks who has traveled all the way from Idaho or Missouri or Maine just for the meeting. When he goes to take part in radio shows, he is well-hedged by policemen; they are necessary because young people mob him for any souvenir they can lay hands on. Johson's mail, at present, tallies some 8,000 letters a week-the highest mail count...