Word: mon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first nobody took the Truman Committee seriously. The Senate gave him $15,000 (about as much as the Dies Committee spends every seven weeks) and a group of colleagues chosen mostly from junior Senators, such as Minnesota's young Joseph Ball, Washington's first-terming Mon C. Wallgren, New York's busy James M. Mead. Also on the committee went cagey old Tom Connally of Texas, to see that the juniors kept their heads. For its first assignment, the Committee chose a modest chore: delving into the more flagrant charges of graft in camp and war-plant...
...Mon with serious cases were urged to report for medical attention by Dr. Andrew Contratto, Medical Adviser at the Hygiene Department. If swelling is very bad or the skin is blistered, prompt care is required, he said, although in less serious cases recovery of the affected part comes in time by itself...
...Daudet spent most of his life in a seriocomic clamor for the return of the House of Bourbon-Orleans to the throne of France. His prose style was a far cry from the gentle whimsy which brought fame to his father, Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin de Tarascon, Lettres de Mon Moulin, etc.). Léon Daudet's editorials in L'Action were slapstick smacks in which he called his enemies female camels, unfecund sows, burst dogs, humpbacked cats, circumcised hermaphrodites. In a courtroom squabble Daudet once screamed "liar" at an opponent so long & loud that his nose began...
Brash, bumptious Henry Morgan loves nothing more than to curdle the milk of radio's sacred cows. On his 15-minute comic stint, Here's Morgan (WOR, 6:45 p.m., E.W.T., Mon. through Fri.), he worries the stuffing from many a radio shirtfront, mocks soap operas, commercials, himself, his station. Last week he went to work on Mutual in a big way. Out over WOR, Mutual's Manhattan outlet, went a startling satire-a monologue on "The Strange Disappearance of the Mutual Network." Listeners heard razor-edged remarks on Mutual's recent loss of The Lone...
...Genius?, a weekday afternoon program (Mon. through Fri., 5 p.m. E.W.T.), is highly unusual for that time of day: it is aimed neither at the little woman nor at the children, but at the whole family. It is unusual for any time of day in that it invites listeners to use their heads. Instead of being paced )by a panel of experts, listeners get out pads and pencils, attempt to answer, in 30 seconds each, questions for the learned, questions for the kids, questions for everybody (e.g., "What is it that a left-handed man always does with his right...