Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When TIME's International and Foreign News editor, Max Ways, returned to his post recently after a month's inspection of Europe (the Nürnberg Trials, Paris Peace Conference, Saxony elections, Berlin's Russian zone, etc.), he made his usual mental note to stay home for awhile. His log showed that in the last five years he had covered some 200,000 miles, mostly overseas, by air alone...
...gather . . . that I was portrayed as a sort of bush-league Svengali, who hypnotized Senator Vandenberg. ... I suppose I should write Mr. Wallace a little mash note and, coincidentally, congratulate you on having such a remarkable young man on your staff. . . . Honestly, I didn't save the Republic; it must have been some other reporter. ... I have never written any of the Senator's speeches or any part of them...
...Tower sexton mounts thrice daily to sound the chimes, not at the hours ordinarily prescribed for the sounding of chimes, but at noon, 6, and 10 o'clock. Those accustomed to the bedlam let loose over Cambridge every quarter hour, and sometimes at 20 minutes to the hour, might note this with approval...
Sole sober note amidst all the Bachannalian preparations was sounded by Louis Croteau, executive secretary of the Watch and Ward Society, from the recesses of the Christian Endeavor Building in downtown Boston...
...exactly the word for it. Jazz was that raggedy music they used to play about 1920. Nowadays, jazz must be classified according to who's playing it. I call Reinhardt's playing Django music. He's one of those musicians who is unable to play a note that's not pretty or not in good taste. Sure he's a great virtuoso...