Word: warmest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, last year, Warner Bros., seeking a love theme for Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, fished As Time Goes By out of the files. Instead of giving the tune to a conventional crooner, Warners picked Dooley Wilson. He is something special. He has one of the warmest personalities that ever got into show business. He sings with understatement and a sense of mood worthy of a great lieder singer. Dooley gave As Time Goes By everything he had. When Ingrid Bergman in the film says that no one can sing the song like Sam (Dooley), millions of moviegoers...
Even in the warmest years, ice stops this flow for some four months. Last year, with an early thaw, the Lakes opened late in March, stayed open until Dec. 9. Thereby total ore deliveries for the open season soared to almost 92,000,000 tons, a record. This year the goal is around 95,000,000 tons-and already four weeks (good for 8,650,000 tons in 1942) have been lost in the big freeze. Only counter balance: 16 new ore boats, good for monthly deliveries of about 1,000,000 tons...
Smith's warmest tribute is to his friend Fred Allen. Quotations from the comedian's letters prove what his friends have always known: that they are even luckier than his radio audiences. Samples...
...neighborliness, forest fires, fishing, customs, communications. But she has no scorn for city dwellers: "In spite of the literary convention of bursting barns, overflowing larders, and cellars crammed with luscious preserves and delicious smoked hams, in spite of the accepted version of the countryman as being clad in the warmest and best of wools . . . the country standard of living is very much lower than the city standard...
...Chinese was turning bitter last week. When Britain and the U.S. said they would give up extraterritorial rights in China (TIME, Oct. 19), democratic hopes leaped up throughout the world. The Chinese, who had just given Wendell Willkie one of the warmest receptions in Oriental history, cheered themselves hoarse...