Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Repentance. In Philadelphia, an unknown thief crept to Mrs. Joseph Martin's house, tied her $125 cameo locket, stolen eight years ago, to the doorknob with an unsigned explanatory note: "I'm sorry...
Cautious Mike McDermott, U.S. press chief in Moscow, and a Roman Catholic, wondered if it was proper for the conference to meet on Good Friday. George Marshall wrote on McDermott's note: "The struggle for peace is appropriate on any day." But work on the German treaty was so hopelessly deadlocked that the Friday meeting had to be canceled anyway...
...light fiction, and he leafed through a pre-publication copy of a new book about Canada's Russian spy conspiracy, which devoted considerable space to the Prime Minister. He liked it. He took time for some writing, too. He got letters out of the way (one thank-you note to the hotel owner apologized for his poor handwriting), and he worked a few hours every day on a new book on labor relations, a pet King subject...
Whether they supported the present restricted policy, no tutorial at all, or a reversion to the pre-war program, the departments without exception agreed on the necessity for a student-teacher relationship which would extend beyond the mere note-taking stage...
After having been skilfully battered into the most odious of film categories, the movie biography has had its face lifted by Columbia in "The Jolson Story," and emerges almost unrecognizable and completely vindicated. Jolson himself recorded the songs, and he still packs more life, rhythm, and excitement, note for note, than any other singer around. Combined with Larry Parks' delivery, which old-time Broadwayites claim to be phenomenally like that of the man who was the biggest boxoffice draw of his times, Jolson's voice accounts for the excellence of about half the picture...