Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This Infamous Program." In the convention hall, Southern oratory boomed out like cannon fire. In the front row, Oklahoma's doddering ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray beamed his approval, proudly recalled that "I'm the man who introduced Jim Crow in Oklahoma." Race-baiting Gerald L. K. Smith turned up as a spectator under the pseudonym of S. Goodyear. A group of Mississippi students set up a chant: "To hell with Truman...
...Manhattan newspaper offices, telephones began jangling crazily. Angry voices wanted to know if the terrible rumor was true. It was. One choked-up caller exploded: "Geez, it's Poil Hobba for the Giants." Said another: "O.K., send a photographer down to Brooklyn Bridge in 20 minutes. I'm jumping...
...mildly amused by the whole affair, sat the first-place Boston Braves, who didn't need a new manager. At week's end, after winning four out of five, the Braves were eight games out front in the National League. Chuckled confident Manager Billy Southworth: "I'm a tough man to beat when I'm ahead. They're really going to have to go some to beat...
...even the basement office did not keep Acme from being scooped on a prize picture of the G.O.P. Convention. When Tom Dewey slipped away to the garden party given by the Pennsylvania Railroad's M. W. Clement for the leading Republican candidates, the Acme photographer covering Dewey was busy changing his shirt...
Hunky. Over a magnum of champagne, M-G-Magnate Louis B. Mayer signed up Dore Schary, thus became Hollywood's first to profit from Howard Hughes's shake-up at RKO (TIME, July 19). As executive producer and Mayer's No. 1 man, Schary will direct production of all M-G-M pictures, draw a salary of about $5,000 a week. Punned an M-G-Mster: "Now everything will be hunky Dore...