Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his new post, Secretary Gray, unruffled by his row with the National Guard, looks back longingly on his first Army assignment. "The life of a private is a happy one, one of the happiest periods of my life," he remembers. "I never was called upon to make a decision...
...kind of story that more & more headlines are made of: the Army had investigated TVA Chairman Gordon R. Clapp, and found him unfit for a temporary occupation job in Germany. The officer who leaked the story would not let his name be used, but he was willing to make a few large remarks under the protection of anonymity. ". . . Why would he be permitted to remain as head of TVA?" he asked. "I think it is a terrible situation and ought to get an airing...
Perhaps publication of all the names was beyond anyone's control-but that was small consolation to the people accused. Some may have been Communists as charged, some innocent. But none had his day in court to make the convincing reply that fair play entitled...
...basis of its showing Saturday at Princeton, the British team figures to make Monday's meet close. Oxford-Cambridge took the 100, 220, mile and two-mile against Princeton-Cornell, and showed well in the broad jump...
Plainly, I am not "a sports enthusiast." And it is fortunate that Harvard affords sanctuary for that small band, including myself, which does not shriek, moan, gibber, or drool at the actions of local athletes. (I would like to make it plain that my group is not "intellectual," and that its scholastic average is only slightly above the average. My friends and I enjoy moving-pictures, ice-cream, comic-strips, and in most other respects are Typically American...