Word: liven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week gaining a nationwide reputation. It is the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, now known to 40,000 new soldiers from a dozen States stationed nearby at Camp Shelby. Owner and entire editorial works of the American is Charles Green Andrews Harmon, explantation overseer, who six years ago decided to liven it up. With 4,000 new readers at Camp Shelby, Editor Harmon works hard to amuse and enlighten them...
...bugler with General Pershing's 1916 expedition to Mexico (where he says he developed his barrel chest), flew with the Lafayette Escadrille in France. After that he modeled for Arrow Collars, worked on Broadway. Donlevy likes fishing, prospecting for gold, has a family fondness for whiskey. To liven his cinema slugfests, he sometimes tries to anger his opponents, then let them have it. Otherwise his dis position is peaceful. But he is never joshed on two subjects: his middle name (Waldo) and the toupee he wears professionally...
...whooped up in Chicago (see p. 11). Unlike many another listener, Wendell Willkie was not bored. Having predicted his own nomination on the sixth ballot in Philadelphia, Mr. Willkie predicted Franklin Roosevelt's renomination on the first ballot in Chicago. But until "we-want-Roosevelt" chants began to liven the broadcasts, Candidate Willkie was glum. When the news came, he happily puffed a cigaret: "Boy, I think my worries are over...
...team in the league a good game. There are lots of choice seats, yours for the sitting, around the Soldiers Field diamond; and the Harvard nine could use some real vocal support--even of the Brooklyn variety. Don't condemn the Harvard games as being dull; go down and liven them...