Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many newsmen lifted some of their stories directly from the telescreen (see PRESS) without bothering to stir from the press lounge. After a few minutes at Convention Hall, Correspondent H. L. Mencken wrote: "I began to wilt and go blind, so the rest of my observations had to be made from a distance and through a brown beer bottle." Television showed just about everything that could be seen in Philadelphia, and a lot more than any one man could see on his own. (Example: a LIFE-NBC televiewer could watch Dewey arriving at Convention Hall, leaving the Hall, arriving...
...three-year provision seems to rule out Dr. Thomas Parran, former PHS Surgeon General (TIME, Feb. 23), who had been considered a likely choice. Dr. Parran has been careful in his public statements, but Congressmen have accused him of using "extraordinary executive pressure" to stir up public demand for socialized medicine. Except for a six-year term as New York State health commissioner, Dr. Parran, graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine, has served in the PHS ever since he finished a one-year internship in 1916. One PHS man cracked of the new bill: "Well, they didn...
...Francisco News. And dapper Jack Burket, editor recently turned columnist, was blank of ideas. Just in time, he found one, and turned out an essay on the moods of San Francisco at dawn and dusk. Over at the rival Hearst Call-Bulletin, the column seemed to stir memories. Leafing through files, the Hearstlings found an April 23 piece by A.P. Columnist Hal Boyle-on the moods of Manhattan at dawn and dusk. They reprinted the columns side by side, under the heading HO HUM. Sample quotes...
Saturday's tussle was all Harvard. Springfield produced a game crew of physical education students with some knowledge of the game, and though they didn't play very well, they tried hard. One brief flurry of fists and a sackful of penalties was all Springfield could stir up all afternoon...
Uncomfortable Man. Taft himself, stumping the state with the vigor of a Crusader, spoke bluntly and honestly, as always. He also betrayed a personal sense of outrage and irritation. But even so he did not stir audiences. At times fewer than two or three dozen people collected to hear him speak from courthouse steps; he seemed uncomfortable as he stepped forward to shake hands. When he spoke at Cadiz, a knot of roughneck strip miners booed, and called "Throw...