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...radio's best-laid plans for this war was to keep the radio audience hep to devious military movements and tactics. NBC had cornered General Hugh Johnson's spare time. CBS had Major R. Ernest Dupuy, old New York Herald man, World War veteran, author (If War Comes, with Major George Fielding Eliot), and West Point's public relations officer. MBS got Major Kent C. Lambert from Fort Jay, onetime exchange officer with the Polish Army. But last week, almost as soon as war began, all three went out of action...
Always Torvald Hoyer was the Understander.* At the cry of ''Hep!" he would arch his chest, flex his muscles and allow the rest of the Montrose Six to swarm all over him, stand on his head, festoon themselves from his arms. This went on for years. Playing Switzerland one year, he met and married a Danish toe dancer...
...under surveillance; because Miss Loy knows that Tracy, in spite of his pose as a fellow criminal, is really a sleuth. Dialog wavers back & forth between flippant, Grade A exchanges between Miss Loy and Tracy, and sad C-minus stretches where the crooks make remarks like, "We're hep to the whole layout...
...wise magistrate collected only 75? costs on a plea of "guilty of speeding" offered by the envoy's humble native American chauffeur who, with touching fidelity, had sought to save his master. In Washington, where members of Asia's diplomatic missions pride themselves on "being hep to everything United States," the speeding incident was seen at the Iranian Legation to be a piece of trivial yokelry. However, to keep the diplomatic record straight, heavily embossed Iran stationery was got out and a formal protest to the State Department written, signed, sealed and delivered.* Without divulging their reason...
...Referee John M. Cragen. Vigorously Plaintiff Gillman challenged the findings of Contest Judges Walter K. Van Olinda and Andrew J. Davis, both of whom had a hand in preparing the Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Dictionary. The courtroom rang for a fortnight with such words as: aha, ama, hep, aim, ani, pah. Aha, said Plaintiff Gillman, was either a sunken fence a religious service, or an exclamation. Ama was a wine vessel used in the early Christian Church, also a medical term for "an enlargement of the semicircular canal of the internal ear." Quoted from George Eliot...