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...keep calling to ask what they can do for Ike. All sorts of clubs have sprung up. We wish they would work through this office, but it's like trying to control a ratrace. We really can't object to all the excitement, though. In fact, the more the merrier--it's a good sign...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Headquarters: I | 2/7/1952 | See Source »

...more the merrier," says Margarita...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Footballers Report | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

...primary job," Settlemayer says, "was to shelve books. But my secondary job was to go next door and get the firemen to put out kids who made any noise." Instead of putting people out, Librarian Settlemayer figured that he should be bringing them in -and the more the merrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Salesman in Atlanta | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

Echeloned in Depth. Next day the guests departed-the Americans by plane, the British and French by special trains-making the small, cheerful sounds appropriate to the occasion. As Bevin climbed on his special train, Vishinsky warbled, in Russian, a drinking song, "The more we get together the merrier we'll be." Bevin descended to the platform, joined the chorus: "For your friends are my friends, and my friends are your friends." The next merry get-together of the peripatetic Foreign Ministers Conference is scheduled for London in November, with possibly a preliminary warm-up at the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: £20 A-Begging | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...executive management, leaving Capra free to do all the details of picture making-from story selection to final film editing. With the machinery set up, it seemed a pity not to ask in a couple of other topnotch directors. George Stevens (Penny Serenade, The More the Merrier) is already at work. William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver, Wuthering Heights), under contract to make one postwar picture for Samuel Goldwyn, turned out the excellent The Best Years of Our Lives before he could join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 23, 1946 | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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