Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...message. There was no real difference between what these messages said and what a generation of New Dealers had said before. But in Mr. Truman's monotonous twang and Clifford's primer sentences, they just sounded dull. And after the speeches were made, nothing ever seemed to happen...
Even Rene Peroy, probably the frankest coach who ever ran a team for the H.A.A., expects a close match this time. So far Peroy has called the turn on every fencing duel, but he did not predict what would happen when his once beaten swordsmen face the Yale Varsity today at 3 o'clock in New Haven...
TIME'S determination to tell the news, whenever it can, through people, is as strong as ever. "Human interest" is not only the most interesting kind of news, it is also the "truest," i.e., the nearest approach to the way events actually happen. In casual conversation, people sometimes reveal more about the news than in set speeches or ponderous books. Millions of words have been written in the past 15 years about the personality of Franklin Roosevelt. In March 1933, the week he was inaugurated President, TIME printed a brief quotation from his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt. It summed...
...except when conscience compels us. We should not expend any 'risk' for the sake of having a scoop, for the sake of being the 'wise guy,' for the sake of attracting attention or being entertaining. . . . We must be scrupulously careful not to confuse what is happening with what we devoutly wish may happen...
...Miracle Can Happen (United Artists). Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Fred MacMurray, Victor Moore, Harry James, and a distinguished supporting cast. Roving Reporter Meredith asks people what, if anything, a little child has done for their careers; they tell him, in flashbacks. It's all intended to be funny-and some...