Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gerard, who wrote a scathing review of Kieran's Nature Notes (TIME, April 14), took it all back, said he really thought the book was wonderful. ∙∙ In Manhattan, Author Sinclair ("Red") Lewis made his Broadway debut as director and angel of the season's quickest flop: one performance. Critics called Good Neighbor "immensely dull." Said stage-struck Lewis who lost $25,650: "They were right. When you get that universal a comment there is no use fighting...
...cinema's quickest-rising starlet of the year, tiny, honey-haired honey Constance Keane Detlie (Veronica Lake), gave birth to a daughter (6 lb., 2 oz.) at a Hollywood hospital. Her husband is Art Director John Detlie. Same day her leading man, William Holden, was in the hospital for an appendectomy...
...world's peace, says the book, they must be dealt with like any homicidal criminals. But it is unnecessary to put the whole German nation to the sword. It is more humane to sterilize them. "The army groups, as organized units, would be the easiest and quickest to deal with. Taking 20,000 surgeons as an arbitrary number and on the assumption that each will perform a minimum of 25 operations daily, it would take no more than one month, at the maximum, to complete their sterilization. . . . The balance of the male civilian population of Germany could be treated...
...Ominous." Quickest reaction came in the incensed comments of Senator Wheeler, whose isolationist ammunition had lately been running low. ("The President not only desires to muzzle Senators who oppose him but he wants to muzzle the press and keep facts away from the people. . . .") A few White House correspondents thought they detected portents in the President's talk regarding the shape of news to come. Warned the New York Sun: ". . . an ominous climax to a long series of events that have led definitely in the direction of Governmental control of the press." Some reporters were puzzled, reacting as though...
...quickest route to socialism, says Willkie, is loose fiscal policy, which wrecks private enterprise whether the citizenry wants it wrecked or not. On that score the British are taxing themselves far more cruelly than is the U. S., are paying-as-they-go for as much of war's cost (currently around one-third) as they...