Word: rememberable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wayward Wit. Six years ago loquacious Jimmy was hauled into New York's Supreme Court, charged with libeling a state boxing commissioner. In a burst of silence, he heard Justice John McGeehan sum up his attributes: "One sees the rakish leer in his eye and gathers that he has...
The company's first novel, September Remember, had a good sale (14,000 copies). But, contrasted with Prentice-Hall's 1945 total net profit of $556,761, this was peanuts. Then Pres. Ettinger met Ros Marshall in Hollywood, liked her, quickly signed her up to write three books...
U.S. officials who went to the Potsdam conference remember the evening when Secretary of State Byrnes showed up an hour late for dinner in the American quarters at No. 3 Wilhelmstrasse. Winston Churchill had held him up, talking. "All we do here is listen," lamented Jimmy Byrnes. "Britain tells us...
In Rome, as May Day began, five armed raiders slipped into the radio station at suburban Monte Mario, overpowered attendants, seized the master transmitter. Into the microphone they shouted the Blackshirt war cry, "Duce, a noi!"-"Duce, to us!" They played a recording of the Blackshirt war song, Giovinezza. They...
The Dutch know that they have a hard road ahead. Viewing their Indonesian empire more as businessmen than as politicians, they are quite willing to give it political independence, assuming that the Indonesians will not disturb heavy Dutch investments (prewar estimate: nearly $2 billion). They feel keenly that they cannot...