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Like all announcers, Stark and Herlihy are haunted by the possibility of blowing their lines. Herlihy made one of the first U.S. television commercials back in 1941: when he saw the TV camera bearing down on him, he forgot every line he had carefully memorized. Announcers still shudder at the thought of the classic fumble made by Radcliffe Hall. He was racing the clock to complete a bread commercial before his show went off the air when, to his horror, he managed to turn the tagline "Always demand the best in bread!" into a whopping spoonerism...
...Frankly," concluded the Isis, "this list appalls us, for if this is what has emerged from these seven years since the end of the war, we shudder to think of what the next seven years will have to offer . . . We cannot put the blame on transatlantic enthusiasm: enthusiasm is a good thing anywhere, and if the American can talk the hind legs off an English donkey, it is the donkey's fault. The trouble, we think, is not that Columbus went too far . . . On the contrary, it is that we permit this influence, however well-intentioned, to encroach...
...local police chief. I dread to think what the Cambridge constabulary would have done should I have tried to steal a cap or two. It is not hard for me to remember the good-humored way in which a group of London policemen would control the crowd, and I shudder when I think of the antics of last nights "riod squad." Perhaps a Harvard student would be naive to anticipate any other conduct on the part of the police having once heard their rankling over the PA system in the Square...
...member of the HYRC, but never have I seen such an accurate appraisal of the high command of Harvard's Republican organization. As political manipulators, they are tops. Wire recorders under piles of dirty laundry and rigged conventions are right up the alley of Roger Allan Moore & Company. I shudder to think of what might happen to the country if these admirers of Machiavelli should ever hold public office...
...behalf of those Americans for whom the "shrill upper register" voice of Eleanor Roosevelt echoes the highest ideals of this deranged era, I want to extend my sincere thanks to TIME-a magazine I generally read with apprehensive glance and frequent shudder...