Word: preferment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder last week General Sun frankly conceded that he has a tough job of reorganization ahead of him. Only about half of Sun's troops will take his orders; the others feel themselves bound to generals who reject Sun's authority. Actually, Sun would prefer a smaller, more compact army than he now commands. Unreliable generals have been sacked right & left without regard to traditional face-saving niceties. Sun is now busy re-establishing their units under generals of his own choosing...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (book by Joseph Fields & Anita Loos; music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Leo Robin) lets the famous Lorelei Lee of the '20s gold-dig once more-this time to music. The blonde is played by Carol Channing, who last season rocketed from nowhere to minor fame in Lend, an Ear. Last week she drew rave reviews; one critic ecstatically called her "the funniest female since Fanny Brice and Beatrice Lillie...
...cold around Harvard, so objects like ear muffs, gloves, wool scarves, and mittens are good. Some women prefer clothes with more style, such as French gloves and nylon lingerie, but any female in her right mind will accept and appreciate a pair of stockings...
Such hockey officials as New York's John Reed Kirkpatrick and baseball men as Philadelphia's Connie Mack aren't at all worried about television--in fact the think TV is giving sports many new friends. Magazine surveys of both these sports have shown that fans still prefer to see the teams perform in the flesh, because hockey and baseball television is a far cry from the closeup coverage of boxing, wrestling, and football...
...does not estimate how much greater damage would be caused by the vastly more powerful bombs developed since those were dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But it hints that an enemy might prefer to explode its bombs underwater to spray Washington with radioactive water. A spray of far-flying radioactive rubble from a bomb that penetrated the ground or buildings before exploding might be even more effective...