Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...separate from its unscientific trappings: Howard Hughes' demonstration of Trans World Airline's new "terrain avoidance" radar (TIME, May 12). It was a junket complete with movie starlets, sirens (the shrilling, not the rock-sitting variety), motorcycle cops, a "Miss Arizona Aviation," parties, and all the familiar Hollywood accessories. During the actual demonstration Leonard was not surprised to find himself seated next to Gossip Columnist Hedda Hopper, who, he reports, "didn't turn a hair during all this mountain-leaping...
...school principal wrote to F. D. Pratt in response to a letter she had received from him as TIME'S circulation director, asking whether by any chance he was the Francis DeWitt Pratt she had taught in third grade in Schenectady, N.Y. She felt there was something vaguely familiar about his handwriting...
...readers have known Fran Pratt that long, but they know his signature well. It is, in fact, familiar to so many of TIME Inc.'s readers (he does the same job for LIFE and FORTUNE) that he is forever meeting people for the first time only to hear them say: "Oh, I had a letter from you!" and sometimes add "this morning...
...memory of a 32nd: Trombonist Glenn Miller, their former leader, who was killed 2½ years ago in a plane crash over the English Channel. The band still carried around Miller's custom-made trombone. Last week crowds who jammed into the huge casino heard the familiar sweet ballad style-a clear, wan clarinet leading a throaty quartet of saxophones in the melody, backed by a powerhouse of brass-that had once made Glenn Miller the No. 1 jukebox favorite...
...this union from the inside. For all their significance in the American scene, the details of what a union is and how it operates are not well known. The confusion in Congress is proof enough of that. Even the hydra-headed collosi we know as corporations are more familiar, and often more respected. After a brilliant reporting job on a crew and its union activity at sea, Boyer describes the union as a working democracy, as part of the lives of its members, and not as simply a far-away bureaucracy which has lost touch with the people it represents...