Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World War II had caught the U.S. repeating many a blunder and folly from World War I. This week, in a summing-up report, the Senate's Mead Committee pointed to the worst of them, hoped they would not be repeated again...
National Farm & Home Hour (Sat. 1 p.m., NBC). The Hour's first fall program: a special report from the 42-nation U.N. food conference at Copenhagen, by Keith Himebaugh, information director of the U.S. Agriculture Department...
...Before the Mast (Paramount), based on Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s semi-classic, is no more unfaithful to its original than most screen adaptions. Taken as plain fiction, Two Years Before the Mast is a good, rough sea story. Taken as Paramount presents it-as a faithful Dana report of the U.S. merchant seaman's lot a century ago-it sounds and looks like a job of rewriting by one of the more fanatical members of the National Maritime Union...
Whatever the evening's hostess may think of the accuracy (or propriety) of her guest's report, or citizens in general of Adamic's logic and tendency, Dinner at the White House is sprightly reading in parts. The old ban against quoting the President's most casual remarks without permission is now off in Franklin Roosevelt's case. The result is a kind of super-Winchellian account of White House gossip, undoubtedly the first of many. Sample: at dinner F.D.R. mentioned that ex-King Carol of Rumania wanted to come...
...blunt report in the novel-form of Mary Jane Ward's The Snake Pit (TIME, May 6), Asylum Piece is a highly sensitive, subtle attempt to see the world through the eyes of a score of demented people, true not to life but to the living death of insanity...