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...common noun instead of a capital "D" as a proper noun, denoting a trademark which it is. (It's like saying joe doakes, smoking a camel, drove off in his ford to buy some listerine.) On p.92, in an item about a spy movie, you refer to "hidden dictaphones" when you mean a secret listening device. Well, Dictaphone just isn't that kind of machine and Dictograph, a trademarked voice-transmitting device, isn't really used by criminal investigators, local or federal, to overhear remote conversations. (They usually have their own small delicate apparatus privately built...
...what remarks of the Senator his Soviet caterwauling might refer was hard to guess, since the Senator is not imperialist. Last week Senator Vandenberg spent most of his time preparing for the San Francisco Conference. Promised freedom of action by Franklin Roosevelt, he seemed determined to exercise his freedom to the fullest...
...intrepid Manchesterites were still at it" (TIME, Jan. 8). The people of that city refer to themselves as "Mancunians," not as "Manchesterites...
...published two days after it, told how Franklin Roosevelt "played his part in the ritual like a veteran bridegroom. I was there. . . ." In his second try, Wonderboy Welles professed accurate knowledge of what Stalin had told his Big Three partners-at Teheran, Churchill and Roosevelt had wanted to refer a matter to their experts; Stalin rejoined: "Can't we three decide anything...
...There should be no more need to refer any such action back to Congress than that Congress should expect to pass upon battle plans today. The Commander in Chief should have instant power to act, and he should act. I know of no reason why a hard-and-fast treaty between the major Allies should not be signed today to achieve this dependable...