Word: lookers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Typical of the careening growth of these departments: In April the section under able, Jiggs-faced Lieut. Colonel Stanley Grogan had a staff of 27, now has 61. Under Major Earle Looker, ex-adman and Roosevelt biographer, the department of Intelligence & Analysis since December has mushroomed from one officer and three civilians to four officers and 48 civilians. Major Looker (recently promoted from captain) digests spot news, reviews periodicals and newsreels once a week, monitors and records all radio commentators, playing them back on portable machines to officers interested...
Best Seller. But Manager Johnson's best-selling good-looker dates from the regime of his predecessor, Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Lily Pons has exuded practiced charm, emitted light but flawless high notes at the Met for just ten years...
Last fortnight, radio operators on other ships in the North Atlantic were startled to hear a British battleship broadcast one day, right out in plain English: "Read Luke XV: 6." Bible looker-uppers found this quotation : ". . . Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost." (One of the troopships had strayed in fog, been shepherded back by two destroyers...