Word: happiest
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...Happiest member of the Class of 1946 yesterday was Radford Brokaw of Dunellen, New Jersey, who sped through the rigamarole of registration faster than any other Freshman and so won for himself a free subscription to the CRIMSON...
...Paramount, bedeviled by the inexorable disappearance of young leading Hollywood males into the U.S. armed forces, the happiest discovery of Take A Letter is undoubtedly bright, manly MacDonald Carey, whose first cinemappearance (as the tobacco baron) is a bang-up job. Fresh from the corn country (University of Iowa, '35), young Carey moved into his first Broadway role as Gertrude Lawrence's leading man in Lady in the Dark. Paramount, which had previously tested and rejected him, took him when it bought the play. Now it can do nothing but weep over its new find. His draft rating...
Editor Stout, a man of determined convictions, refused to discuss whys & wherefores; but, said he: "There was not one point of disagreement but several. It was a very strong disagreement." He said he was going back to "the work I'm happiest in-a tramp newspaper man." With his wife he will head west by automobile, taking plenty of time to chin with plain folks along the way. For his first self-assignment he chose "the biggest story in America today, the story of the revolution that is taking place in American life...
Buyer was redheaded, tough, 51-year-old Howard W. Parish, who got eleven Seattle businessmen to put up the money. As manager of the Jacksonville (Fla.) Journal since 1937, he boosted that paper's circulation from 39,000 to 55,000. Parish's happiest days had been spent on the Seattle Star, where he rose from newsboy to president and general manager of the Scripps-Canfield chain. In the days before the Scripps boys began meddling with the Star, he had built up the best circulation in the State...
...mood of both books is the same. The common bleakness of their titles -Iron Age, Ice Age - is no accident. It springs from the bewilderment of men who are living through the apparently irrational collapse of a great civilization, "the happiest," says Chamberlin, "and certainly the most creative in the history of Europe." The sense of irrationality is all the greater because this civilization did not decay like Rome or Byzantium by agelong stages of dry rot, but apparently cracked up suddenly and catastrophically, like an incomparable machine shak en to pieces by the super-power of its own superb...