Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merely Buster Dewey, in sarcastic appreciation of his age, 38. Now Buster began to get some of the old meaning back. But much remained to be done, perhaps too much, before Mr. Dewey became the G. 0. P. nominee; when it came to lining up delegates, harelike Mr. Dewey hadn't yet overtaken Robert the Tortoise Taft...
Last February the committee named Odlum returned from the desert with its mind made up. At a Curtiss-Wright meeting one day, Odlum asked whether the other 14 committees had a solution. They hadn't. He asked for a day, returned with a description of a hypothetical "X Corporation," told how a marriage with hail of "X Corporation" would solve Curtiss' problem. The directors agreed, but they did not tumble until Odlum spelled out the name of "X Corporation": ATLAS...
Dealer David Silberman showed Cinemactor Mitchell the Christ along with some modern paintings (Mitchell hitherto had bought only moderns). His eye hit the Rembrandt and stayed there. "I saw something in that Christ's face I hadn't seen before," said he. "It wasn't an emaciated, lifeless symbol of a man. It was a human, bewildered Christ. This Christ was real flesh and blood and soul." For that flesh and blood and soul Tom Mitchell plunked down about...
...popular fellows next door. But did anyone ever say that it approached Picasso? Never. Maybe the whole trouble was that, unlike those six other paintings, it had not been accorded the privilege of decorating two full pages in "Life." Or perhaps if that critic from the New York newspaper hadn't leaned down to pick up the pencil he had dropped just as he was passing the piece, he would have dedicated a few valuable cliches to it in the Sunday edition...
Secretary Ickes' crab meat MIGHT have left him "wishing he hadn't eaten it," but for TIME to plump down the definite statement that it did is the cause for our comment...