Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burke's Peerage Ltd., of London, has written to ask for a copy of The TIME Audience in Heraldry (TIME, Sept. 19), which uses the ancient science of heraldry to symbolize the many groups that make up the readership of TIME. Burke's managing editor, L. G. Pine...
"Tell me what the temperature is right this minute. It's 81, isn't it?" Then he added, with a nod toward his daughter Margaret: "She owes me one dollar if it's 80 or over." The captain flushed, looked as though he wished he were dead...
Day after day, while Mrs. Truman lazed and read detective stories, and Margaret, a photo fan, experimented with her four cameras, the President concentrated on swimming, sitting in the sun and taking long afternoon naps. He got up early, as usual. One morning he teamed up with his naval aide...
For almost the first time on a vacation he did virtually no paper work-only one White House pouch left the base during the week and it contained routine documents. There were nightly motion pictures at the cottage, but the President, no movie fan, seldom stayed up to watch.
The deadline came & went: 400,000 miners left their jobs and glumly dug in for a "tough Christmas." Playing his role up to the hilt, labor's great ham let almost eleven hours go by before he lumbered into the Hotel Roosevelt ballroom and grandiloquently announced his decision: the...