Word: joes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other cover subjects : John L. Lewis, Tom Dewey, Robert Taft, Dean Acheson, Eugene Dennis, Richard Mellon. A fine craftsman and a thoroughly professional journalist, he has a special talent for sizing up his man in his lead paragraph. His cover story on former Speaker of the House Joe Martin (TIME, Nov. 18, 1946) began: "About all that little Joe ever did was brush the flies off the horses' big rumps while his old man did the shoeing. Little Joe never actually worked at his father's trade. But he grew up to have...
...three bosses of the Red-wired electrical workers-President Albert Fitzgerald, Julius Emspak, James Matles-made the same fruitless overtures. Big Joe Curran, an ex-party-liner himself, boss of the maritime union and one of Murray's chief aides, chortled: "It used to be when Jim Matles walked in the room, we all stood up. Now we don't even let him in the room." This was not quite correct: Murray did let him in, and listened before waving...
...Tokyo Joe (Columbia) is a seedy melodrama jerry-built from bits & pieces of half a dozen old Humphrey Bogart thrillers. The movie's weary, grey air is due to its stolid dependence on what has become a Bogart stencil; as a scowling rebel who just wants to be left alone by laws, red tape and good works, half-villain Hero Bogart is repeatedly maneuvered by his better nature into warring against evil. In his recent Key Largo, the malevolent-browed hero blocked the return of Capone-style gangsterism to the U.S., and in the soon-to-be-released Chain...
...wonderful party. With an assist from some of the 14,000 bottles of wine and vodka Stalin had sent down to Yalta, F.D.R., Churchill and Uncle Joe were letting their hair down. They were further cheered because they had closed some pretty big deals. The next day, Feb. 11, 1945, the Crimean Conference would be over. Reminiscing, F.D.R. told the others how his recovery program had prevented disorder, maybe even revolution in the U.S. Churchill observed that Russia's one-party system made politics easy for Stalin, and Uncle Joe allowed that one party was a great convenience. Perhaps...
Frank Effinger, Yale's top-rate miler, failed in yesterday's race, placing 11th in order of finish. Dave Gregory, running eighth, was first in the Harvard entry. Captain Joe Leeming, running only his third race of the season, followed Gregory at ninth place...