Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stewart, the Crump candidate. Crump has been sulking ever since, and his recent espousal of the States' Rights party is probably as much a fit of pique at Kefauver and Democratic regulars as a wily effort to repair his fading fortunes. In view of these unusual factors, what will happen in Tennessee is anybody's guess, but Republican hopes there are as high as an elephant's eye, even if it has taken the peculiar charms of Roy Acuff to achieve them...
...happen to be planning or debating a vacation trip abroad with your family* during the forthcoming year, the following account of TIME Inc. Bureau Chief William Gray and family's two-month sightseeing trip from Shanghai to New York City via Europe may serve to help or inspire...
Eire, which is also technically a Dominion, was not invited to the conference as a whole, but was asked to sit in on a special session at Chequers, Prime Minister Attlee's country home. There the delegates discussed what would happen if Eire carried out her plan to leave the Commonwealth. The delegates were agreed that such a wayward sister would lose trade preferences and the right of her people to emigrate to other Dominions...
...This was an aspect Disney had neglected; two years before, needing money, he had sold Mickey Mouse to a children's tablet manufacturer for a paltry $300. Kamen rushed to Manhattan to open an office called Kay Kamen, Ltd. (cable address: Mickmouse), never let that sort of thing happen again...
...ability to solve a tremendous casting problem. If it wins--and a very experienced member of the rival Theater Workshop gives it much more of a chance to win than I would offhand--it will have put some unalloyed entertainment successfully on the Sanders stage. This doesn't happen often enough at Harvard. I'm not betting, but I'm hoping...