Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bedtime Story. The White House correspondents, though not unused to being the President's whipping boys, scribbled angrily on their note pads. The President continued his lecture. There used to be bedtime stories, he said, about children who saw things under their beds. That was a very bad habit. When he was vacationing in the South he could look down on the whole Montgomery Ward incident (he raised his hands to show from what a height he had observed it), and that was just what was happening. A lot of people in this country were seeing things under their...
...Jersey City's Journal Square, whence Boss Frank Hague's brass-buttoned, blue-coated cossacks were once wont to chase orators who came there with the delusion that the whole U.S. enjoys free speech, all but busted his tongue through his cheek: "History is bound to note this spot as one of the battlegrounds where free speech was firmly established, together with the American way of life...
...Seven Days Ashore (RKO-Radio), which detailed the embarrassing simultaneous involvements of a merchant mariner (Gordon Oliver) with three girls. It was spiked by the presence of swart Comic Alan Carney, and there was a fine moment when haughty Margaret Dumont shattered a cocktail glass with a sour note in her rendition of Over the Waves. But the film is best summed up in one critic's quip: "Seven days can be a long time...
Back in Cairo last week, Dr. X had one light note to record: the girl guerrillas carry so much armament "it's difficult to dance with them...
...Note: "Strange Fruit in Cambridge...