Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friendship. Whatever the final outcome of the investigation, it had already defined the kind of dank atmosphere in which Vaughan's good friend Hunt and his colleagues had operated. If Vaughan himself had done nothing worse, he had used the White House as a means of playing low-grade county-courthouse politics. At week's end, the President was still sticking firmly to the position he had assumed during his weekly press conference -that nothing which had happened had changed his opinion of his old friend Harry Vaughan in the slightest. Mulling Harry Truman's stubborn friendship...
...Comedian] David Garroway ... is due for a TIME promotion, by virtue of seniority and Navy personnel. Garroway patrolled the untroubled waters of Waikiki as a lieutenant, junior grade, not as an ensign [TIME, July...
Last week the La Jolla (rhymes with Ahoy ya) Playhouse hit a jackpot with a midseason production of Moss Hart's Light Up the Sky. The cast read like that of a grade A cinema-Gregory Peck, Jean Parker, Benay Venuta, Florence Bates-and the first-night audience looked like a Hollywood première. But behind the elaborate façade was the solid work of such self-improving actors as Gregory Peck and Mel (Lost Boundaries) Ferrer, who have carried the load of running the Playhouse ever since David O. Selznick put up $15,000 to help...
...sentimental, sway-backed horse opera about a champion pacer of the turn of the century, and the Hoosier hayseeds who bred and trained him. On the track Dan cuts a handsome and convincing figure, but the scriptwriter did him wrong by stuffing his feed bag.full of low grade Hollywood corn. Sample: Dan shows up outside the bedroom window of his dying master (Henry Hull) looking as if he were prepared to read the burial service. Equally lugubrious are Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell and Ruth Warrick, all of whom are required by the formula plot to get badly entangled...
...onetime cowboy, who left school after the sixth grade, Keener picked up his basic engineering in survey work for the Colorado Power Co., in 1934 founded his own company. From one employee, it grew during World War II, when Keener built ammunition plants, to 800 men, has netted Keener a tidy personal fortune...