Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charlie Thomas is the busiest Republican in heavily Democratic Los Angeles County. Yeasty young party members are flocking to his campaign-although he is not running for any office. GOPoliticians are cagily watching its progress and wondering if he will let them climb aboard his band wagon. The state's Republican brass is beginning to shine up to him. Bald Mr. Thomas is boldly wooing and winning Republicans to his side with such unprofessional talk...
...Notorious Gentleman, starring Rex Harrison, was released in England as The Rake's Progress; U.S. distributors changed the title so that American moviegoers would not mistake it for a documentary on gardening. The picture's chief moral lapse: it makes adultery look like too much fun. At the end of all his wenching, the Rake dies as he has lived-happy and unrepentant. Death is just what he deserves, but the Johnston Office wants him to show some remorse...
...either impossible or difficult. You might find fault with Hindustan climatology, and carefully show the effects of the monsoon rain on the caloric intake of the Bengali peasant; there is some relation. Or you might find the Hindu religion, totalling 65 percent of the population, a hindrance to progress in its rigid caste definitions. Then, there are always the British, for it was through their policy of laissez-faire that little or no social advancement was achieved in India--or in any of their other colonies. But whatever the cause, the effect exists in lean and filthy reality...
Last week President Truman could see progress, on at least one of his pet programs. Workmen started tearing out the old lift, proudly reported they had found a hoofprint of Algonquin in the cork tile floor. The cage will go to the Smithsonian Institution as a relic. It will be replaced by a speedy, fireproof elevator designed by White House Architect Lorenzo Winslow at Harry Truman's order. Until about Oct. 1 the Truman family will have to use the stairways...
Sure everything was on the road back to normalcy. The headlines weren't any worse than they were in the thirties, and the same old gripers had the same old gripes. But the wheel of progress was moving faster and faster. Maybe Vag was out of tune with the times. Maybe everything would work out for the best in the end. But meanwhile there was so much to do and so little time to do it in. Let's not miss anything. Get in there and pitch, sonny, there's no telling when the game will be called on account...