Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Public Relations and as assistant to the Commanding Officer of the Norwegian Air Force) for three and a half years to hear the stories of Norway's martyrdom firsthand. At night, in the bare, cold barracks, in darkness except for the light shining on my notebook, I have recorded hundreds of stories that might have inspired such a spiritual as Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? Through one of our flyers there is for me a particularly close association with Bishop Berggrav. We shall call him Johannes Finnsen. In 1941 his photograph was taken by Bishop Berggrav...
Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, commander of the Twelfth Army Group, can get the weather forecast at any time from his meteorological staff, but he likes to see things for himself. So he keeps three barometers in his headquarters office, jots down the readings twice a day in his notebook...
Thus, in his first "Publisher's Notebook" column for his newly purchased Chicago Daily News, dynamic John S. Knight launched a blast at civilian complacency in general, at exuberant Elsa Maxwell's recent Hollywood "Victory Party," celebrating the liberation of France, in particular. Concluded Publisher Knight: "I'm afraid it made me retch" (TIME...
...world was ever so sincere and modest in his self-devotion," wrote Marie in her secret notebook. When her husband discovered the notebook he was furious. "A bad wife is to her husband as rottenness to his bones," he roared. Screamed Marie: "Do not provoke me . . . you Stinkard, Base Slubberdegullion, Cheesy Plagiarist, Immortal Whip-Arse, Eater of Stinking Beef!" Poet Milton hurriedly sent her home to learn manners, and Mother Powell shrieked that he deserved to be whipped. But after a few years Father Powell saw that the Parliamentary forces were going to win the Civil War, so he sent...
...three: Philadelphia Bulletin (circ. 662,634), Hearst's New York Journal-American (circ. 641,194), Chicago Herald-American (circ. 471,886). *First "Notebook" in the News was a blast at civilian complacency as illustrated by Elsa Maxwell's Hollywood "Victory Party," pictured in LIFE. Excerpts: "Youthful Judy Garland had everyone in tears when she sang The Last Time I Saw Paris. Of course, Judy has never actually seen Paris, but after a few cocktails, what the hell. . . . Yes, Elsa, it must have been a wonderful party. I am sure you thought it was just too, too divine...