Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas Eve many years ago Scrooge promised the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come that he would live in the Past, the Present, and the Future-and not shut out the lessons that they teach...
...that first Christmas Eve, young Rector Clingman, 38, liked what he saw. There were 166 people in the little church -half of them children. "The children intrigued me," he said afterward. "They were underprivileged really . . . because of the estates they lived on, they had no playgrounds and little contact with other children...
Everybody knew that George Marshall, who would be 68 on New Year's Eve, yearned for retirement. But President Truman, who knows a number of persons who are ticking along fine with one kidney,* was optimistic about the Secretary's health and in no hurry to name his successor. If Marshall left, however, there was no doubt of his own choice. It was Under Secretary Robert A. Lovett, of whom he had once said: "Lovett is a better Secretary than the man they have...
...just like New Year's Eve," Miss Crocker said, explaining that after the big Christmas Eve dinner in the hotel, everyone went downstairs and danced until...
...trade magazine Kaleidoscope made its bow this fall, magazine men were amazed at the jet-propelled speed with which it had been put together (TIME, Sept. 13). Last week, Kaleidoscope set another speed record of sorts: after only three issues, it fizzled out like a spent rocket. On Thanksgiving eve dismissal notices went to the staff...