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...opinion on the atomic bomb also noteworthy. No. 2, of course, is Communist China, which, in the words of Anna Louise Strong, has "an area almost equal to that part of the United States east of the Mississippi River." As Anna Louise left Yenan this week, after a sympathetic stint of several months, she had "the privilege of a final talk with Mao Tse-tung...
...ones this week) and a competent drum major (yes, major) they paraded before the kickoff and between the halfs, displaying a well-drilled marching technique and creditable musical skill. Their performance came to its expected climax as the column approached the Crimson goal posts during its between-the-half stint and the leader flipped his baton neatly over the crossbar, then grabbed it successfully on the way down...
...year-old Lou Cowan, a 6-ft.-3 in., 214-lb. Ph.D. (in history) from the University of Chicago. He hit radio's big time in 1940 by producing Quiz Kids, which still writes him an annual check in six figures. After a wartime stint as boss of OWI's hub office in New York, Cowan went back to show-packaging-producing and selling programs complete from stars to sound cues. Senator was his second postwar production, second sale. (The first: a transcribed series, Murder at Midnight.) To shape it, Cowan laid out $5,000. Chief budget items...
...worked without stint in P.A.C. He held the dissonant factions together and patiently built it into a potent political machine. He was its guide, strategist and catalyst...
Dogged Manitoban farmers know that Garson, who came into the premiership after a tight-fisted stint as provincial treasurer, is no spendthrift. If he was convinced that now was the time to splurge and make Manitoba a more prosperous province, they" were ready to give him what he wants...