Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anthropology, took up where he left off last year, when he began several weeks leave to examine the craniums of 1500 Army Air Force flyers in an attempt to determine the average Air Force size. Professor Hooton's efforts last year centered in an attempt to find the perfect post-war trolley and subway seat, which he accomplished by measuring the derrieres of several thousand men and women in North Station and calculating the perfect posterior...
World War II is the best-reported war in history, but its coverage is still far from perfect. Last week Editor & Publisher printed a vigorous letter from Saipan which illuminated one of the most serious shortcomings. The letter was from the Chicago Times's Correspondent Keith Wheeler. Excerpts...
...show business, a "character"-into a cinema hero. The makers of Wilson have gentled, sweetened, warmed, simplified and softlighted Woodrow Wilson's complex personality in every way the facts allowed. Their title-role choice of Canadian-born Alexander Knox, largely for his excellent voice, was well-nigh perfect for the purpose...
...Perfect Life. After a stay at his father's sanitorium in New Hampshire, young Sidis returned to Harvard. His lifelong physical awkwardness was already apparent. His "marked distrust of people" did not prevent him from graduating cum laude in 1914, aged 16. Reporters bypassed such classmates as Leverett Saltonstall and Sumner Welles in their eagerness to interview the prodigy. He told them: "I want to live the perfect life. The only way to live the perfect life is to live it in seclusion. I have always hated crowds." But he stayed on to breeze through Harvard Law School...
...radio, Norman Corwin's "My Client Curley" was a delightful trip into whimsy that was well-nigh a perfect blend of lilting humor and that indefinable thing called heart. On the screen, "Once Upon A Time" is an agreeable dose of fantasy that has lost the deft Corwin touch in the hands of Hollywood scriptwriters and turns out good when it should have been tops...