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...apply these days to corrupt practices, whether of the minor variety, as in the recent stuffing of a beauty-contest ballot box, or of the grand public crookedness which too often prevails in the islands. The word is "anomalies." It first began to be used after the war, to refer to deals in surplus war stocks. The government has even set up a special "anomalies tribunal" to try offenders. What the plain people would rather have is government free of anomalies...
...present post: chief of the WAC Training Center, Fort Lee, Va.) and her medals (Commendation Ribbon, Army of Occupation WAAC; American Theater and European Theater Ribbons, World War II). The present director's comment on her successor-"wholesome, energetic and efficient" -was also regular (male generals usually refer to their successors as "fearless, brilliant and dynamic"). But it was evident, nevertheless, that WAC brass is still feminine in exercising at least one prerogative of command-Lieut. Colonel Galloway's age (44) was listed nowhere in her official biography...
...somebody in the business of giving away somebody else's merchandise." Like such other Schlockmeisters as Walter Kline, Adolphe Wenland and Manhattan's Waldo Mayo, Petker gives things away in return for just a kind word. But there is a slight catch: the kind word must refer to a particular product by its brand name, and it must be mentioned on a radio or TV show with an audience of millions. Give-away programs get the bulk of a Schlockmeister's warehouse hoard. Any televiewer who has sat benumbed while an announcer rattles off the list...
...your issue of Nov. 24, reviewing the Ford Foundation's television program, Omnibus, you refer to "the first of a five-part Abraham Lincoln story written by James (The Quiet One) Agee and directed by Documentary Producer Louis de Rochemont." TIME errs. The five parts of Mr. Lincoln were directed by Norman Lloyd. I am the producer of these films. Louis de Rochemont, my brother ... is not connected with the Lincoln series...
Most of the factual information here can be found in the British Foulis books at one-third the price. And the imported works at least refer to an honest engine by its right name: Stein prefers terms like "old lump" or "hot little innards" and modifies them with the word (?) "hairy." But the sloppiness which marks this book reaches a high mark in its "performance figures." Speaking of the successful Allard J-2 competition model, Stein says "130 mph is claimed but I wouldn't know." Actually the Allard's performance is 110 mph and accurate test figures...