Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Tst, tst. Broderick Crawford's shoes in Of Mice and Men (TIME, Dec. 6) have a 4½-in. buildup, not 4 in., as reported. I ought to know-I made them. In street shoes Crawford stands 6 ft. 1½ in., in my shoes (Trademark "Staturaid" patent pending) he's a 6½ footer. Incidentally, this was only the second theatrical order I executed and with that buildup you can't expect inconspicuousness. My regular customers, business and professional people (average sales 200 pairs a month), generally need only 1½ to 2 inches...
...Personnel Head Harry Bennett to the Board's report was instantaneous: "The N. L. R. B. decision sounds like a page out of the United Automobile Worker [union newspaper]. It's not only offensive but ridiculous. Only the employes who work for the Ford Motor Co. can know how ridiculous it is." On the Board's order to reinstate 29 workers with back pay, the Bennett comment was: "They'll have an awful fight over that one. We won't take those men back." On the Board's order to post notice of compliance...
...somebody who flops his arms in a sweating frenzy while others do the job. His are the most spectacular tantrums the music world allows, the greatest adulation and the creamiest financial reward it bestows. Yet he scrapes not, neither does he toot, thump nor sing. How does anybody know whether he can even read music? Yet at the end of the concert it is he who takes the bows, not the laboring instrumentalists over whom he presides. Is his a job, or a racket...
This vast gallonage obviously cannot be consumed by any small group of connoisseurs. It must have a mass market. This fact does not lessen pungent little Harry Caddow's contempt for those who still disdain California for French wine. He does not like to think about cosmopolites who know the best French vintage years and can afford to buy chateau-bottled wines. Recently he exclaimed: "It makes the skin roll up your back like a window shade...
...surface of their country, picking up such information as they can get from signboards, gasoline station attendants, road maps, Chamber of Commerce handouts. They race past the biggest factories on earth, rarely pausing to wonder what is made in them. They look out across scenery unparalleled, but only occasionally know the names of the mountain peaks or yawning canyons that take their breath away. They sail through little towns where battles have been fought, insurrections planned, U. S. history made, but usually see only what lies beside the highway as they watch for crossroads and glance at the rear-view...