Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Load. The day after Franklin Roosevelt died, Harry Truman, the man who never wanted to be President, confided to reporters: "Did you ever have a bull or a load of hay fall on you? If you have, you know how I felt last night." In 1948, the load was bigger. But Harry Truman was not the abjectly humble man of 1945 who had begged every casual visitor to pray for him. He had the air of a man who felt he had learned his job. In an informal talk, he conceded recently that there were a million...
...face in Moscow even though Harry Truman stayed in the White House. Leaving ugly, gloomy Spasso House for a vacation in the U.S., Beedle Smith admitted only: "I have handed in my resignation according to form. What the New Year will bring I don't know." Newsmen who watched him pack up all of his personal belongings before he left guessed that he was not planning to come back to Russia...
Most frequent reason for drinking is "sociability" (38%), reported three Rutgers University sociologists in the current Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Women, the researchers found, are much more likely than men to drink merely to be sociable. Pointing out that science does not yet know how to tell the difference between a potential alcoholic and a drinker who can take it or let it alone, the Rutgers sociologists offer a tip to hosts: never insist on anyone's taking a drink; serve soft drinks along with the hard...
...Hollywood, NBC's Al Jolson said he was getting out in May, complained: "I don't like going on the air and doing the show direct. Frankly, I don't know music and I can go flat. I'd like to do radio just like pictures-leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor...
Three Wise Men. The cinemoguls are briskly businesslike and determinedly cheerful. Paramount's Henry Ginsberg said last week that the so-called "depression" is largely "psychological." MGM's Dore Schary says with assurance: "We all know what the problems are and what must be done about them." Twentieth Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck likes to think about the day in the not-so-distant future when television will be an exciting new adjunct of a busier Hollywood...