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Earlier they had only made him writhe. After a few guest spots on the air, in 1935 Hope landed a monologue for Bromo-Seltzer that was less fizz than fizzle. Tossed into a pallid Lucky Strike program early in 1938, he attracted attention but was hailed by Luckies' George Washing ton Hill as Bob Hopeless...
Political sunlight streamed down on pallid Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King during the conference at Quebec. Thousands of pictures in thousands of newspapers showed him basking between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. The broad Prime Minister beamed, thinking perhaps that Canadians who have been showering cold criticism on his wartime administration would now see him in the proper light: as a statesman helping to make big Allied decisions with Churchill and Roosevelt...
...noticed by the 18,000,000-odd readers (6,000,000 combined circulation) of This Week. Their magazine is a boiler-plate assemblage of Grade-B fiction, short articles of the type known as "punchy," home economics and familiar homilies. This Week avoids all controversial issues. The result is pallid fare. But This Week, now eight years old, is a very profitable venture. Last year its advertising revenue reached $7,000,000, and member papers shared profits greatly exceeding the price they paid (as little as $7.50 per 1,000 copies) for carrying the magazine. Backer of This Week...
When God made the Southern woman . . . He wrought with the gold and gleam of the stars, with the changing colors of the rainbow's hues and the pallid silver of the moon. He wrought with the crimson that swooned in the rose's ruby heart, and the snow that gleams on the lily's petals. Then glancing down into His own bosom He took of the love that gleamed there like pearls beneath the sun-kissed waves of the summer sea, and thrilling this love into the form He had fashioned, all heaven veiled its face...
...earlier meetings between Roosevelt and Churchill-on the fogbound North Atlantic in 1941, at the White House after Pearl Harbor and again last June-now seemed like pallid curtain raisers to the drama of this fourth meeting, beneath the tropical palms of North Africa, 4,000 miles from Washington. And probably the decisions reached last week, between the President of the U.S. and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, overshadowed anything they had ever discussed before...