Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well," he said, "there was an item in the paper last week announcing that Mel Ott was retiring from baseball permanently to go back into the contracting business, the place where he was before old John McGraw brought him before the eye of the people...
Your Joseph Wood Krutch item anent the Common Man recalled a good anecdote . . . Back when Henry Wallace, as a vice presidential candidate, was exalting the Common Man, Booth Tarkington . . . commented that the phrase would mean a lot of votes, but the advantage could be more than offset if only someone could prevail on Mr. Wallace to also come out as champion of the Common Woman...
...first item of business was a conference with Attorney General Herbert Brownell about Charles Erwin Wilson's troubles with Congress (see below). After staff conferences and the morning mail, Ike got around to that other eternal function of high office: handshaking. First, a call from Pillsbury Mills Vice President Bradshaw Mintener & wife, who helped Candidate Ike get a big write-in vote in the Minnesota primary last March 18. Then 29 red-jacketed members of the Palomino Mounted Patrol of Colorado, followed by the boys of the Junior Police Band of Denver. Each one expected, and got, the presidential...
...weekly newspaper column, Adman-Author Bruce Barton added another item to the long list of Calvin Coolidge stories. During a visit to the ex-President in Northampton, Mass., Barton recalled, he saw Mr. Coolidge use a telephone for the first time. To check his memory, Bar- ton asked if there had been a telephone in the White House office. Answered Coolidge: "There was one in a booth in the hall I could have used, but I never did. The President shouldn't talk on the phone. You can't be sure it's private, and telephoning...
Perhaps the most unusual method of recalling the date of a subscription came from a woman in Manhattan, who was looking over some copies of TIME many years ago. She writes: "I came across an item about . . . Sculptor Pietro Montana. I cut out the article and gave it to Pietro Montana, whom I had recently met. He had not seen the account when it was published, and he was amazed at TIME'S definite information and its exact way of stating facts...