Word: oftens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bewildered Candidate. Every so often, between the jazz records, the loudspeaker would blare out a four-minute record: "This is Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.... I appeal to you to vote for ... a brave mother of a brave son . . . Bob Coffey and I had a lot in common. We believed in progressive, democratic government . . . We were veterans together." Mrs. Curry Ethel Coffey, who used to work in the millinery department of Johnston's largest department store and had never been in politics before, was now travelling through the mined-out towns and hilly farmlands of the 26th Pennsylvania congressional district...
...Anne Parr-Morley, a middle-aged Englishwoman. "When I ask him what he wants for a meal," she says, "he almost always says 'Oh, just fix me some eggs.' " He also likes macaroni & cheese and chicken. St. Laurent, though no teetotaler, seldom takes a drink at home, even less often entertains anyone outside his family. Says Mrs. Parr-Morley: "He lives more simply than most ordinary people. He's not at all like our Mr. Churchill was, what with all that whisky and things like that...
...Communist protest was serious enough to give pause to trial-worn Judge Harold R. Medina. He recessed court for a day to consider the matter. Closer study, however, showed that Carol's diary was not the earth-shaking thing it purported to be. While Janney did complain often that he was tired of testimony about Marxism-Leninism, he added once: "I guess I'd be tired of hearing capitalist theory if they were talking about it . . ." Another time he said: "We have a fair jury . . . they won't be swayed or prejudiced by personal emotions...
...crime." Transradio won praise for its "excellent" Washington report, but was censured for "using long, involved sentences." One thing radio wants for its listeners, said the committee, is more "quirks, chuckles and brighteners." But, the investigators said sadly, when the news services did try for the light touch they often "belabored the kick line before it was reached" and "some [of their stories] have no point...
Unemotional Editor McGill ran the Pegler column in its usual space, appended a tolerant editorial note: "We often get a bang out of some of Mr. Pegler's strange obsessions . . . Somehow it was not at all surprising to find him . . . using [Miss Mitchell's] death as a vehicle for rebuking the Roosevelts. We knew [her] well enough to know she made up her own mind . . . Certainly she would not [have been] swayed by the influence of an unwise, emotional Westbrook Pegler, an insensate Roosevelt-hater, whose column [may] have swayed and-deprived inferior minds...