Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been more than two and a half years since Jimmy Doolittle's small carrier-borne group of B-25s had bombed Tokyo. Since then Japanese authorities had drilled their docile populace in air-raid defenses, warning them incessantly that it might happen again. Last week the warning was justified: the sirens shrilled and the bombs began to fall...
...most of a column to the fact that she has never had to blow her nose), she says: "Let's break them down scientifically. In the Treasure Hunt . . . intellectual men were paired off with great beauties, glamor with talent. In the course of the nights escapades anything could happen...
...held up the chauffeur of Polish Lieut. General Wladyslaw Anders when he was returning in the general's super-Cadillac from delivering the general to the airport. Military supplies were stolen. A cafe owner was shot to death. Nervous citizens stayed out of alleys, wondered what would happen when the weather got colder and hungry desperadoes grew more desperate...
...kind of kick in their chair-worn pinks. The kicker was the author of "Marmaduke's Colum (The Journal of a London Sub-Editor's Youthful Son)" which appears weekly in London's World's Press News. Fortnight ago Marmaduke tried to imagine what would happen if Alfred, Lord Tennyson had had to get his Charge of the Light Brigade cleared through the Censorship Division of the British Ministry of Information...
Cornhusker State. "This shouldn't happen to a donkey," groaned Nebraska's Democratic leaders over the campaign (no rootin', no tootin') waged by homespun George W. Olsen, their elderly, circle-squaring busboy candidate (TIME, Sept. 25). It didn't. Winner: G.O.P.'s solid Governor Dwight Griswold...