Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then came the crossexamination. The Navy's famed Nov. 27 message to Pearl Harbor had begun with the words: "This is ... a war warning." Hadn't the Admiral considered this highly significant? His answer boomed: "I did not consider it an extraordinary message...
Hedy Lamarr was "terribly hurt." Her third husband, Actor John Loder, had walked out on her two weeks before and she hadn't seen him since. Said she: "We had a quarrel." Overshadowed Actor Loder had been terribly hurt, too, reported Gossipist Hedda Hopper. She figured that the beginning of the end was when he failed to bag a leading role in famed Wife Hedy's latest picture...
...much of that. Any honest effort to get the real news went out the window with the arrival of voluntary censorship, which was an idiotic idea, a lot of poppycock. The papers fell all over each other thinking up schemes for hobbling themselves that even the military hadn't thought...
...they might have guessed that night, success hadn't changed Bummy any: he still got into trouble. A few months later he was arrested for beating up a Brooklyn clothing salesman. At Madison Square Garden, in 1940, he fouled Fritzie Zivic, no Galahad himself, with ten groin punches in one round, wound up by kicking the referee, all but started a riot...
...pleases. Still a reporter at heart-he spent ten years on the New York Times-he will be pleased if he can do an unbiased radio news digest. Says he: "Radio has always paid more for tonsils than for brains. I wouldn't have succeeded if I hadn't had the tonsils...