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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neil supplemented his impressions of four years' residence in the city ("Like most Westerners, I'm surprised at how much I do like it") by visiting sections he had missed. One of Banks's assignments was to accompany O'Dwyer through a mayor's typical day. He joined the Mayor at the executive mansion bright and early (9 a.m.) one morning and crept away to bed 15 hours later. At that juncture O'Dwyer had settled down to read a book on traffic congestion in 2nd Century Rome...
Harry Truman broke off in embarrassment, but started again: "Well, I'm even more honored to dedicate this airport to a young woman who bravely gave her life for our country...
...school stadium to hear him speak. Facing them, he suddenly dropped the folksy role he had been playing and launched a passionate and rashly phrased assault on the Republican Congress. He spoke savagely of G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Bob Taft: "I guess he'd let you starve. I'm not that kind." He was rewarded by a stirring sound-real applause...
...temperature more than his chief was. When he had finished his halting defense of the London agreement, the Foreign Minister walked slowly from the rostrum and took his seat on the government bench. He was sweating, but he muttered to Robert Schuman: "J'ai froid" (I'm cold...
...Pirate (M-G-M). Most movie musicals are made as if, at best, they were just "entertainment," and a pretty low grade of it at that. The Pirate is obviously made by people who know that few things in the world could be better, as entertainment and as a work of art, than a first-rate musical. Indeed, as an all-out try at artful moviemaking, this is among the most interesting pictures of the year. Unluckily, much of the considerable artistry that has gone into this production collides head-on with artiness, or is spoiled by simpler kinds...