Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other readers of a less dour turn of mind thought that the campaign was a first-rate contribution and should be continued indefinitely. They even suggested subjects for future series of advertisements (e.g., recreation: to show how advertising has helped the mass production of movies, sporting goods, etc.). Still another wrote as follows: "Your series is well directed toward making economic points, but does not do the job it should in highlighting the peculiarly democratic political contribution of advertising. You could have shown that but for advertisers there would be no free press . . . On this score it would have been...
...asked final-assembly workers so many questions that cars began coming off the end of the line unfinished. He also appeared at two more dinners, greeted his kid brother Mahmoud, a tall, handsome senior at the University of Michigan, and startled a reporter who asked him what he thought of American women. "I see many of them in the streets," he said in puzzled tones, "but I don't see many pregnant...
Last week, at 34, Joe Foss made up his mind. "Just say I'll be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the governorship in the 1950 primary," he told a newsman. Since Republican Governor George T. Mickelson could not, by law, succeed himself, Joe Foss obviously thought his political skies were CAVU-ceiling and visibility unlimited...
...much the defeat in the November elections (the Republicans were used to defeat) but the direful question: What was wrong with the Republican Party? Nobody knew. Pennsylvania's Republican Governor James Duff thought the party ought "to shed some of the aloofness we have." Harold Stassen was blunt. "The Republican Party is in a bad way," he said. "It is sort of like a football team sustaining a crushing defeat after having advanced the ball to the five-yard line." What Stassen thought the party needed was "a tremendous lot of rebuilding...
...doubt about it, Bernstein is an actor. A young lady once remarked she thought he'd make a divine dancing partner. But for all his shenanigans on the podium, Bernstein is an excellent conductor, and it's not unreasonable to suppose that had he had 20 years' more age and experience, he might have succeeded Dr. Koussevitzky as permanent conductor...