Word: marvinism
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...Class of 1946: Gordon Prentiss Baird, Alvan Samuel Berner, Joseph Jay Bernstein, William Aloysius Cahill, Ashley Hale Carter, William Arthur Cawley, Marvin Arthur Collier, Panaghioti Constantin Cotzias, Thomas Richard Drew, Jr., Joseph Austin Erickson, Jr., Robert Louis Feinberg, John Gilman Foster, Robert John Gabler, John Richard Gilman, Jr., Leon Arnold Green, John Joseph Hall, Lee Montgomery Hutchins, 2nd, John Dunster Kettelle, Jr., Robert William Macnamara, Herbert Anthony Mehlhorn, Adams Hoffman Nickerson, Leon Reznick, Norman Alan Wilson...
...Leonard Strong). He uses judo, to thrilling and protracted effect, to chop down huge, shaven-pated Heavy Jack Halloran. Finally, in front of the U.S. Embassy one night, he confronts what looks like the entire secret police force of Japan. His tag line, spat at an oleaginous police chief (Marvin Mueller) who has had the insolence to try to appeal to him as a Christian: "Yes; forgive your enemies. But first-get even...
...week the President picked another old pal of his-his World War I buddy, Edward Daniel McKim, beefy, brown-haired Omaha insurance-agency executive. Ed McKim was named chief administrative assistant to the President, a job held in the Roosevelt administration by Louis McHenry Howe and later by Marvin Mclntyre...
...recording set the size of a folding camera, completely "built-in" save for a mike on a cord, has joined the parade of postwar dream-gadgets for the civilian. Powered by a battery, the recorder weighs only three pounds, picks up "anything the ear can hear." Inventor Marvin Camras of Chicago's Armour Research Foundation thinks "the average price ought to be about...
...Home-Fronters (War Food's Marvin Jones, Jimmy Byrnes, et al.) thought that any cut in soldier food or further heavy cuts in civilian supplies would be politically impossible and might hurt the war effort by cracking civilian morale...