Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...error to TIME'S sport editor . . . for stating that Giants' Manager Mel Ott hung a $500 fine on Pitcher Bill Voiselle after the latter served up a home-run ball with a count of "two balls and no strikes" [TIME, June...
Fajon, who lines up with, old Andre Marty and young Laurent ("Moscow's Eye") Casanova in opposition to Thorez, told the latter off, politely, at Gentilly. Making the first policy speech of the Central Committee meeting, Fajon said: "There is no such thing as national independence except when efforts toward that end repose on the might of the Soviet Union . . . Maurice Thorez was right when he said, months ago, that our rallying call should be national independence. But we must repeat that one of the major conditions of this independence is ... the cohesion of international Communist parties...
Touch & Go. Grace Fernald is one of the pioneers of a latter-day science called remedial reading. Her "kinesthetic method" works on the theory that reading difficulties occur most frequently in people who lack the ability to summon up a mental picture of the way a word looks. She finds that women have more visual ability than men, and that word blindness is 60 times more common among...
Distasteful Duty. "By whom will the public services be manned? By mediocrity and by hacks? Or by our very ablest citizens? I say it must be the latter . . . We all remember . . . that in the early years of the republic, full-time public service, though at least as distasteful as today, was not thought beneath the talents or the dignity of the ablest and most successful men. By any measure, Mr. Washington and Mr. Jefferson were not the least able citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia...
Killed. Earl Carroll, 55, gaunt, gaudy Broadway writer-producer (So Long Letty, White Cargo, Vanities), latter-day Hollywood nightclub owner; in an airplane crash; near Mt. Carmel, Pa. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Carroll got his start as a lyricist for the late Enrico Caruso, went on to produce 15 editions of his Vanities, two Sketch Books. He declared bankruptcy in 1936, two years later opened his colossal nightclub...