Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest news in the White House week came in a casual press conference remark by President Roosevelt. Asked about reports that the Administration was considering setting a ceiling over all wages, as well as prices and profits, the President said crisply: The whole problem is under study. This was an old, familiar gambit: news veterans knew that the President was thus tipping them off that something was being planned about wage control; that he wanted lots of stories written about the subject, to take the surprise off his proposal when he has it ready...
...well costumed were the actors who took female roles in the production that most of the audience was deceived as to their sex for a long time. When they learned the truth there was much complaining on all sides, a typical remark being, "Aw gee, we didn't think it was them kind of blondes." One poor confused selectee even went so far as to proffer a bouquet of flowers to the leading "lady," Dick Whittemore...
...human intelligence and that steeper virtue, integrity, there is Hitler's immortal remark: "The greatest of spirits can be liquidated if its bearer is beaten to death with a rubber truncheon...
Author Ewen hopefully pictures the present-day U.S. as a singing, playing, listening, understanding nation of 10,000,000 music students, 50,000 school bands and orchestras, though he tempers this estimate with such revealing anecdotes as Samuel Goldwyn's Hollywood-scented remark to Jascha Heifetz: "Money isn't everything, Mr. Heifetz. I can make you famous!" More typical of today, Author Ewen thinks, is Jose Iturbi's story of how he found the radio of a roadside lunch-wagon tuned to a Sunday evening symphony. The clatter melted into silence as customers, dishwashers, waitresses succumbed...
When he went to work with OFF, Corwin was in sympathetic company. OFF's chief, Archibald MacLeish, has written radio plays himself. OFF's dark and glittering Bill Lewis was the CBS vice president who made a famous remark about radio's audience: "Even if it's good, they'll listen." With the desire these men have for excellence and truth in "propaganda" programs, Corwin devoutly agrees. Said he last week, "I have a terrific sense of the dignity of a half-hour of God's time. I feel that anything which smutches that...