Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Serrell Hillman, who was assigned to do the union's history, had trouble overcoming a desire to succumb to Petrillo's histrionics. Once, when a flying finger grazed him, he couldn't help smiling. Petrillo paused. "So," he murmured, effectively lowering his voice to match the phrase, "he laughs. Why do you laugh, kid?" Hillman explained that he had been impressed by the dramatic effects. "Oh," said the musicians' boss, "you should see me when I'm really worked...
...Roosevelt cropped up in domestic matters. Hull remembered those differences with a wince. "I was frankly glad not to be invited into the White House groups where so often the 'liberal' game was played on an extreme basis." He once said to Roosevelt: "I can't help but feel that you're going too fast and too far with certain of your domestic reforms...
...Signing an armistice in the labor battle over Manhattan's gilded Stork Club (TIME, Dec. 15), Proprietor Sherman Billingsley disposed of charges that he tried to influence an election among the kitchen help by agreeing to: 1) rehire three of the eight men he fired; 2) pay back wages amounting to $5,779; 3) hold a new election whenever the union wanted...
...news pretty well restricted to the College Yard and its myriad dime-sized activity groups. Generally the stories are accurate enough, well-enough written, and painstakingly made up in typographical balance. Perhaps this is a sufficient miracle in itself, and we should be grateful for it. Yet one cannot help remarking the curious limbos of the CRIMSON'S world. It is, by and large, a world without graduate schools, without scientific discoveries, without state and national governments, without U.T.M. or a nation's worries about civil liberties. The majority of students are in the graduate departments, but the CRIMSON just...
...students than there was before the depression, the New Deal, Nazism, and all the other things that have occurred in the last decade and a half. But I suspect that Harvard is not yet a perfect university and that the CRIMSON may still have opportunities to criticize it, and help improve it, that are not fully exploited...