Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norman Corwin, topflight U.S. radio dramatist, went to England last summer to try something that U.S. radio had not done before. He wanted to explain England to Americans by short-waving his dramatized observations of the English. Sunspots and short-wave incorrigibility spoiled U.S. reception of four of his seven broadcasts from Britain. Last week, at home under the happier auspices of U.S. medium wave, Corwin tried again-and scored...
Author Green looks back on his French schooldays with some dismay. The boys studied day & night, at 14 could read Herodotus, find their way through the Hundred Years War, explain Newton's theory of colors. Once a week, for one hour, they exercised with dumbbells and climbed ropes, "fully dressed, of course; the idea of taking off one's clothes to go through exercises would be considered strange and indecent." Seldom, says Author Green, did these children or their teachers "think of the new generation growing up on the other side of the Rhine, sturdy fellows whose bodies...
...airdrome before he knew the Japs had seized it, but realized his mistake before the Japs did. The 19th's best-beloved character, a Portuguese-accented master sergeant named Louis ("Soup") Silva, now buried in an Australian grave, shot down three Japanese Zeros while trying to explain to a private how a gun should be aimed...
...clues in a logical and subtle manner. Particularly complex is the problem of disclosing the identity of the company involved. There was one episode where the installation of a bonus system in a factory had been delayed seven years because the English foreman knew he would be unable to explain to his wife why he brought home different amounts of pay each week. Here, the personality of the foreman was the key to the case; yet the instance would have seemed too fantastic to be true, and might have revealed the company...
...Admiral Jean François Darlan. The invasion of North Africa was the first great political-military venture of the U.S. in World War II. Its tone would set the tone for the others to come. How could the U.S. Government, opponent of Fascism, exponent of the Atlantic Charter, explain this? Was not freedom to come in the wake of the Americans? If Norway were invaded, would the U.S. thenceforth move to strengthen the hand of Vidkun Quisling...