Word: reference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cambridge-TIME, June 12], that our failure to publish a letter regarding the disturbances along the Charles River was the result of pressure by officials of the University, are therefore based on a misunderstanding of our purposes and position. The decision not to publish the letter to which you refer was made by us in accordance with our general policy, prior to any consultation with Dean Hanford. . . . DANA FERNALD Editor ROGER H. WILSON Managing Editor RUSSELL K. HEADLEY Photographic Chairman The Harvard Service News Cambridge, Mass...
Sirs: I believe your criticism of Frank Kluck-hohn's close-up of Major Richard Ira Bong (TiME, May 1) was unjustified. If the facts given were correct, and you did not seem to question them, I see no reason why a reporter should refer to Bong in "warm, sympathetic" tones...
...with one last touch directed at the main character of our column for these four months, we refer with pride to Granny Lee, one of us lowly Ensigns, who, this month, completes his first fogey...
...starring system; if it had, Fitzgerald and Sara Allgood would undoubtedly have been headliners. When the Players toured the U.S. in 1934, a passel of critics and actors gave Fitzgerald a scroll calling him "the most versatile character comedian in the world today." A lot of reputable people still refer to him, automatically, as the finest living actor...
Back at headquarters Wilson's airmen burlesqued the glamorous fighter pilots, gesturing with their hands to indicate dives and half-rolls. "Somebody above me nearly hit me with one of those cans," complained a sergeant. "Please, gentlemen, let us refer to those cans as bombs," corrected a lieutenant...