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...about what goes on in a radio studio.¶stood for Crossley ratings. M was for Mother ("All mothers are wise, and most of them speak with a sectional accent"). O was for Orson, celebrated in a lyric commencing "Who is Orson? What is he, that all the critics hail him?" and ending "All is well that ends with Welles." At Q, quizzes came up, "programs which make you feel good if you know the answers which the guy at the microphone doesn't, but if he does know the answers and you don't, well then...
...quiescent, Correspondent Whitaker thinks. They accept the German occupation "with as much resignation as the eruption of Vesuvius." They are overawed by Germany's military might. But once the Germans are being defeated, they will be ready to rise, he predicts. At night, when an Italian tries to hail a passing taxi (scarce in wartime), he shouts: "Libero? [Are you free?]" In the darkness come answers from people in the street...
...took a hurricane to get Carol Hohen zollern and Magda Lupescu out of Spain. Since the ex-King and his plump Pompa dour fled from Rumania amid a hail of brickbats and the spat of lead against their armored train (TIME. Nov. 25), the Spanish Government has given them asylum but refused to let them push on to Portugal. "I am desperate!" chain-smoking Carol told a London Daily Express reporter. "If I do not get a favorable reply to my application to leave Spain tomorrow, I will go on a hunger strike!" Carol and Magda continued to eat heartily...
Henry Wallace appeared, brushed and beaming, looking sure of himself; with him John Nance Garner, his little apple-cheeks pink in the cold, his eyebrows like small puffs of Texas cotton. The band broke into Hail to the Chief, and the President walked slowly forward from the shadows of the rotunda, leaning on the arm of Son James resplendent in the Marine Corps's red, gold and blue uniform...
...most distinguished son-that the Fight for Freedom "must and will" be fought simultaneously on two fronts: abroad against soul-cramping fascism, at home against poverty and reaction. This war, they urge, is not a barrier against social progress, but a path to it. Paraphrasing Herbert Croly, they hail the Promise of American Strife...