Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Georgia's wavy-haired Paul Brown prided himself on being the Congressman who "never missed a roll call." One day this week a colleague rose to explain the strangely empty Brown seat: Lieut. Robert Thomas Brown, 24, Representative Brown's submarine-officer son, had just been reported "missing in action...
Private Hargrove's particular pals are a slick con man, Private Mulvehill (Keenan Wynn), his bucktoothed, leering sidekick, Private Esty (George Offerman Jr.), and a solemn, proletarian, Private Burk (Bill Phillips). Private Burk tries to explain to Private Hargrove the puzzled sources of his patriotism, but Mulvehill and Esty simply gyp Hargrove right & left. As co-executives of a mythical Date Bureau, they sell him an evening with a girl (Donna Reed) who never heard of their scheme. They also form the Marion Hargrove Beneficial Association to raise funds for his New York furlough. The catch: he signs over...
Cleveland's Jack & Heintz (Jahco) last week put their circus touch on lobbying. Bill Jack, Jahco's brass-lunged president, invited 525 Senators and Representatives to dine at his expense in Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel. He wanted to: 1) explain Jahco's renegotiation troubles (TIME, Jan. 24); 2) make a proposition...
...Miller cried: "I still love Bob." In that case, asked a coarse, unread reporter, why had she been playing around with the late Dr. Lind? Her answer summed up the timeless dilemma of distraught ladies in fictional triangles: "That is one of the things you can't explain...
Psychologists Dispense and Hornbeck could not explain their results but thought that most probably the current had produced chemical changes in the mother rats' hormones. They based this theory on evidence that 1) an electrical current in body fluids produces acid at the anode and alkali at the cathode, 2) douching female rats with acid and alkaline solutions seems to affect their offsprings' intelligence in much the same way as electricity...