Word: regularization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dolph", once of Hollywood, has made a standing date at one of Beantown's favorite nightspots--the Touraine Bar. How naive must have been the faces of Bill "The Bradford" Shirey, Don "Raymore Playmore" Royce and Rod "Scollay Square" Rolain as this threesome was asked to desert their regular haunts for a well-spent Saturday in Wellesley...
Jimmy Byrnes gave Truman a fast fill-in on the Russians, their reluctance to broaden the Polish Government on Yalta lines, and their decision to send a second-rate delegation to San Francisco. Forthwith, through regular State Department channels, President Truman sent a meaningful message to Stalin...
...news was announced at the White House at 5:48 p.m. Two networks had it on the air one minute later. Thus in many thousands of U.S. homes the first to hear the news were the children. The flash broke into the regular time for juvenile adventure-stories. That was the end of most commercial radio for four days...
...Blue followed its flash with five minutes of detail. Mutual had a commentator on the air in the first quarter-hour. It was about time for the regular overseas news casts. Within slightly more than two hours, overseas correspondents of NBC, CBS and Blue had been broadcasting the first local reactions - from Paris, Rome, London, Luxembourg. Before the night was over, the reports were coming in from Germany, Guam, Okinawa...
...York Herald Tribune dropped all display advertising so that it could use the newsprint thus saved to print 100,000 extra copies. Many other newspapers did the same. The San Francisco Chronicle went farther, dropping all chatty columns, women's features, etc. PM omitted its regular Sunday picture of a pin-up girl. Everywhere newspapers broke out their 260-and 300-point wood-block headlines (known irreverently to printers as the "Second Coming" type). And even the New Deal-hating Chicago Tribune used a journalistic symbol for mourning, familiar in Lincoln's day: "turning the rules" so that...