Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...section of the press in both countries chose to fasten on the only exception, Bob Falkenburg. They magnified the regrettable incident in which he was booed by a small section of the crowd and printed his statement that the Wimbledon crowd is anti-American. It is enough to make a confirmed fan gnaw the net. The Wimbledon crowd is not anti-anybody. They queue for hours to study tennis and personalities, in that order. And they ask not if you won or lost, but how you played the game...
...stumped Editor Hall is a four and a half page letter written by an American entirely in code. Another, from a Missouri schoolboy, asked for Sherlock Holmes's help in apprehending a schoolmate suspected of filching goodies from his classmates' lunch boxes. Hall advised the boy to make sure of his facts before accusing a fellow human being, and told him to do as Holmes did: watch his man. There were other letters which began: "Bless your heart for letting me write a letter at last to 221 B Baker Street and know that I will receive...
...found out a long time ago that in this House the people get along the best who go along the most." He switched to ominous prophecy: "Some of these days, unless we pay a little more attention to the consumers of this country, they may rise up and make it hard for us to continue a farm program...
...nothing the Speaker could do or say was going to save Harry Truman from another defeat. The rebellious House was out to kill the Administration's spectacular Brannan farm plan (TIME, April 18). And to make the chase more annoying, some of Sam Rayburn's most stalwart followers were leading the posse...
...Berkleys of Broadway. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers still make an engaging dance team (TIME, April...