Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comdr. Morison's adventures was unique in that it didn't quite happen. On the staff of Rear Admiral Walden D. Ainsworth aboard the U.S.S. Honolulu, he was on hand for the initial bombardment of Guam. "By that period of the war our fire support ships steamed so close to the coast that a native of Guam on the Honolulu could see his house, and proposed that he and I go ashore in a rubber boat as a two-man task force to give his friends the good word. Fortunately this plan did not appeal to Admiral Ainsworth...
...That must be modified, in our opinion, in the light of recent developments. The right of control does not mean the right to dictate policy, or the right to eliminate people from positions because they happen to disagree with you. The Emergency Council (wartime substitute for the Student Board) of last June has so interrupted its rights. We want to modify its constitution in such a way that never again can commit such arbitrary and arrogant acts again...
Anything can still happen in America. Less than ten years ago, slight, pompadoured little Igor Loiewski-Cassini landed in the U.S. with only $10, a hint of a titled past, and a lean & hungry look. By last week, at 30, as the new "Cholly Knickerbocker" of Hearst's New York Journal-American, he had reached the peak in his peculiar field...
Like Hollywood's everlasting Hardy family, One Man's Family (the Barbours) is an imaginary upper-middle-class family full of common traits, to which all kinds of uncommon things happen. Morse says he got the idea for One Man's Family from reading Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga. Family is as prettied-up a picture of American life as the neat colonial homes in the ads. A Pocatello, Idaho judge has described the program as "the pillar of the American way of life." It has been a pillar to Carlton Morse too, bringing him more than...
...Avery could find little to carp about. Said one Ward official: "It's hard for me to believe that Ward's won or lost anything by the seizure. I doubt if people either bought or stopped buying because the Army was in. Things just don't happen that...