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Fairly modest about it, but willing to let others share his secrets, contemporary journalism's readiest confessor (earlier autobiographical volumes: Personal History, Not Peace but a Sword, Between the Thunder and the Sun) reports on what he has been up to during recent years. In the spring of 1942, at the age of 42, he joined the Army Air Forces. He rose from captain to lieutenant colonel...
Okay, Young Man. One Sunday last spring while Moss Hart was having a drink in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, a young Air Forces lieutenant breezed over to his table, introduced himself, said: "Would you like to do a play about the Air Forces?" "Certainly," answered Hart, as the readiest way of getting rid of him. But ten days later Hart was in Washington, face to face with General H. H. Arnold. Hart stated his terms: "I must be boss." Said Arnold: "Okay, young...
...shows, last week there were some 30. Audiences may have bus and blackout headaches, may grouse because seats cost from sixpence to four shillings more than they used to. But with petrol rationed, jaunts are few. With the liquor shortage, parties are fizzles. So cinema & theater offer the readiest escape...
...Readiest to go was WPA, where Adminstrator Harry Hopkins had only to say the word and thousands of added workers would be taken on the rolls at WPA's field offices. While that was happening, the more visible moves of WPA were: 1) To approve Sidney Hillman's plan for buying $10,000,000 of men's and boys' clothes for distribution to relief clients (TIME, June 27). 2) To call for bids on $12,000,000 worth of cement, sand, gravel, crushed stone, paving asphalt. 3) To meet with President David Lasser of the Workers...
According to its title-page, its purport: "Designed to Give, in Complete and Accurate Statements, in the Light of the Most Recent Advances in Knowledge, in the Readiest Form lor Popular Use, the Orthography, Pronunciation, Meaning, and Etymology of All the Words, and the Meaning of Idiomatic Phrases, in the Speech and Literature of the English-Speaking Peoples...