Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Page One, at least, it looked as if Louis Johnson was making fast progress towards unifying the armed forces. But there were plenty of skeptics who asserted that unity was still only headline-deep. Last week as his No. 1 assistant, publicity-conscious Louis Johnson surprised everybody by picking a publicity man: Franklin D. Roosevelt's old press secretary, Stephen T. Early. Congress had newly created the job of Under Secretary of Defense to give Johnson a workhorse general manager. (World Bank President John J. McCloy was offered the job, but turned it down.) Whatever Steve Early might lack...
...years I was working for peanuts and learning how to pitch." For four years, beginning in 1936, he floundered in the lowest labyrinth of the minors-with Osceola, Ark. and Newport, Ark. It was the same story everywhere he played in those days: good curve, no fast ball...
Above all, the reductions underlined the fact that the auto industry is fast getting back to something like competition, although some cars are still hard to get. Ford's cuts were bigger than those made by General Motors a month ago, though smaller than the recent slashes in Kaisers, Frazers and Willys. Ford's cuts brought the prices of Ford Custom-Six cars into exact competitive line with Chevrolet's comparable models, except for the club coupe, which is now $15 cheaper than Chevvie...
Champion is hard & fast at slugging the audience. It is stunningly photographed and the pace seldom slackens. At its brilliant best in the fight scenes, which are probably the most brutally believable ever screened, Champion is equally good at creating suspense. In a chase sequence, when Midge is being cornered in an empty arena by faceless racketeers, the camera movement in & out of the vast shadowy beehive of tunnels, arcades and aisles is expertly terrifying...
...first Harvard student to get to Wellesley on the morning on Sunday, April 24, will be greeted unrestrainedly by a smooth; curavacious, perfectly inflated, and fast moving Schwin bicycle. The only hitch, announced Harvard Outing Club president William Siddall '50, last night, is that the lucky student will have to get there by bicycle in a 10 1/2 mile racing starting at the intersection of Chestnut Hill Ave. and the Worcester Turnpike...