Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note your reference to James Caesar Petrillo as a non-smoker [TIME, Jan. 26]. How do you account for the enclosed cut of the "Czar" lighting up a "Lucky...
...interview added two footnotes to presidential history. The first was Harry Truman's answer to Russian protests after Winston Churchill's historic speech at Fulton, Mo. The President, said Nover, sat down and penned a personal note to Stalin with his own hand. He offered to send the battleship Missouri to bring Stalin to the U.S., promised to accompany him to the University of Missouri at Columbia (20 miles from Fulton) for "exactly the same kind of reception, the same opportunity to speak his mind." Stalin's answer, as usual: "Nyet...
...music supposedly concerns in the first movement, a man's death, in the second and third, various reflections about his life, in the fourth, a search for the primal light, and in the fifth, the day of judgment. You would never guess this, however, unless you were a program note reader, something which tradition condemns a reviewer to be. If you just listened, you would hear a great deal of very brilliant, very exciting climaxes. You would hear great quantities of brasses playing louder than you had thought possible. You would hear a number of light, charming folk-tunes serving...
...brassiness of modern musicals. It is inexpressibly delightful to sit in a theater without the constant danger of having a big-name band jump up and down noisily. Here the commercial Jazz is present but not overpowering, and the picture wends its pleasant way without mishap. A perhaps interesting note: Betty Grable is in the billing, but it was impossible to find her in the movie. Perhaps she dyed her hair, or perhaps she was a maid, but don't look too hard and you'll be safe...
TIME is so darned helpful. I had no idea what a virgula in virgulate cercariae was until I read the note that it is a bilobed [organ] near the buccal cavity of styleted xiphidiocercariae [TIME, Jan. 12]; then I understood it perfectly...