Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reveries by a question in management. Tom Kiernan has been heard musing about how he's been "getting down to fundamentals" in his life recently. Back Ayars' conversations with Kenilworth, Ill, from E entry (with or without the aid of a telephone) are becoming suspiciously more frequent and lengthy; but they always end in the same sad refrain, "John, bring up the box of quarters." The John referred to here is none other than that "cute boy" of the Boston night spots, John...
...other people besides Hofer working to get pictures for him, although Hofer was always the man who closed the deal. There is considerable mention of "Task Force Rosenberg," which as near as I could figure out went around France, Holland and Belgium, confiscating art collections. There is also frequent correspondence with a ist Lieut. Dillenberg. who seems also to have kept an eye out for choice objects, perhaps as a member of the "Art Historical Detachment" of the Luftwaffe, which is mentioned several times...
...Companions. Stettinius made capital of his frequent telephone checks with President Truman and Cordell Hull, never failing to give them credit for advice or decisions, when doing so would strengthen the U.S. position. He relied on daily, minute "briefings" by his department experts, remembered what he was told with amazing exactitude, and did not hide the fact that he would often have been at a loss without this assistance...
...performed by a noted orchestra on tour of service camps. June Allyson and and Marsha Hunt head a troupe of girl instrumentalists manning the violins for victory, Durante acts as manager of the outfit and general good humor man, and Miss O'Brien goes along as mascot. There are frequent syrupy interludes of worry about Joe, Miss Allyson's husband who is missing in the Pacific, but there are also magnificent renditions of Handel's "Messiah" under the baton of Iturbi, and "Au Clare de Lune" by Larry Adler with his harmonica...
...seemed likely that Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, frequent adviser to Franklin Roosevelt, would lose none of his influence at the top of the government, particularly in view of his close friendship with Jimmy Byrnes. And white-thatched Jesse Jones would be available for financial advice...