Word: lets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer forced to make his bed or sweep his room, and he had given up his two daily 30-minute strolls in the prison yard. Though the prison director allowed him a radio, Petain seldom turned it on. But he still clung to his firm resolve to let posterity judge him on his record. The last paragraph in his will explained why he had never written his memoirs. Wrote Petain (according to his lawyer): "I would have had to praise myself and say unpleasant things about others...
...Times muffed its last real chance when the Scripps brothers let Editor Bill Townes quit because they were unwilling to back up his robust, crusading news policy (TIME, March 15, 1948). It was the same policy that E. W. ("Lusty") Scripps, grandfather of Ed and Jim, had used to build his chains. Townes had boosted circulation to 47,077; by last week it had slumped back to 40,500, and local advertisers were throwing their busi ness to the rival News-Tribune, the city's only other daily (circ...
...John got into trouble with the police for stealing a typewriter and a movie projector. At an "honor farm" of Ohio State Reformatory, it was the same old story. Other prisoners avoided him: "I would walk up and watch them when they were playing cards. They let me stand there for awhile and then look up as if they were telling me to beat it." He ran away from the farm, was caught stealing again and sent back to the reformatory...
...imitate the Europeans . . . It's better to write good Gershwin than bad Ravel." And after hearing some piano preludes, songs from Porgy and Bess and An American in Paris, topped off by a rousing Rhapsody in Blue, Cannes connoisseurs found good Gershwin good enough for them. They let Conductor Horenstein & Co. know it with six noisy curtain calls. Concluded old Cannes Critic Edouard Berthier: "When you write that kind of music, you don't have to imitate anybody...
...need not close the door on life. The moms and pops want your sacrifice . . . They wouldn't do it themselves . . . The people who operate these training institutions (old maid factories) are greedy for your sacrifice so they can continue in their positions . . . Don't let them bait...