Word: tags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...triumph for corn. His reports from Washington for NBC have always sounded as if they were delivered from a cracker barrel near the stove in the general store. He used to end a local broadcast with a "God bless you one and all." Once, he omitted the tag line and received ten indignant letters from as many old ladies. Washington newsmen believe that it was Henry Ford himself who picked Godwin's raspy drawl to supplant William J. Cameron (TIME, Feb. 2) as the Voice of Ford...
...that." It is not quite easy to believe in the Basil of the epilogue who says, "There's only one serious occupation for a chap now, that's killing Germans," good as he might well be at the job. But Waugh's tag line brings every page of the book into razor focus...
...this "Tag! You're it" melee it is difficult to see just what has happened. Obviously the blame cannot be fastened on any one faction. Our playwrights have been confused and temporarily caught off base; our critics, perhaps a trifle sterilized by their ancient standards of judgment, could be of more constructive aid; and surely the unions could temper their constricting closed shop policy and allow a few more economically budgeted productions to receive a Broadway showing. This might have aided the Group Theatre, one of the few enterprising endeavors in New York, and kept them alive this past season...
Numbers. In Columbia, S.C., Glenn Sigmon, who dreaded the number 13 so much that he had his street number changed from 1313 to 1315, got his draft number: 1313. In Baltimore, Elmer L. Brown, whose World War I identification tag was No. 5584, drew draft number...
Never in the past 18 years have the Elis walked off with the mythical crown, but, if the times which the Blue mermen have written into the record books so far this season are any indication, this year might well be considered "der Tag...