Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur Duffey was not "a minor but revered West Coast cop dodger" (TIME, Jan. 29), but one of our greatest sprint champions and a highly respected amateur athlete...
...fortnight Rumania's Premier General Nicolai Radescu had stubbornly defied every effort by the small but vociferous pro-Communist National Democratic Front to drive him out of office. Denunciations, demonstrations, minor riots in four cities, even an attempted assassination had failed to force the unpolitical Premier's resignation (TIME, March 5). Last week things suddenly began to happen...
From the U.S. First Army, fighting towards Cologne last week, came what one correspondent called "a minor epic" of the war. It concerned the building of a bridge. A small column of 8th Division infantry had a fingerhold across the Erft Canal. Ahead of them, the Germans were gathering tanks for a counterattack. Behind them, U.S. combat engineers were building the bridge, to bring up armor to support the infantry...
...Have and Have Not" has little to offer beyond the scope of "Casablanca" except for two memorable characterizations in minor roles. Walter Brennan outrummies W. C. Fields in a sympathetic portrayal of lovingly barflied Eddie,, and Hoagy Carmichael "plays it again" with more stuff than Dooley "Sam" Wilson...
Henry Morgenthau Jr., who keeps track of the mountain-sized U.S. debt, was introduced in St. Louis to E. E. Pershall, a Missouri lumberman, who claimed that he was one of the U.S.'s minor creditors. "I worked three months as a $1-a-year man in the Treasury," he said, "and I was never paid." The Secretary of the Treasury promptly handed over a quarter...