Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heroes have made more money or become better known than warm and selfless Major Victor Joppolo, central character of Novelist John Hersey's best-selling A Bell for Adano. Few are now more obscure than ex-Lieut. Colonel Frank E. Toscani, the prototype of Joppolo in real life...
...With the oil industry he made an uneasy peace by promising to suspend price ceilings soon on all petroleum products. As oilmen have vociferously pointed out, the supply of most petroleum products is now equal to demand. The only shortage is fuel oil, and the coming of warm weather should ease that...
...Hoyt moved into Bonfils & Tammen's famous "red room" at the Post, no screaming headlines but a modest front-page story recorded his arrival. Staffers met Hoyt and his wife at a city-room reception, liked them on sight. Muttered one old hand: "It's like a warm breath of spring in an icebox...
This handsome record stems largely from never playing safe. Catholic University has always refused to "warm over" recent Broadway hits. It prefers things that come out of its own workshop or off the top shelves of the classics. Last month C.U. took its first shot at American mystery melodrama-with William Gillette's creaky, 46-year-old version of Sherlock Holmes. The production, staged with finesse, was clever enough to make the creaking sounds seem, fairly often, creepy...
...never got used to: the hen; the gasoline lantern; the outhouse at night; no radio; no telephone; "bats hanging upside down in the cellar, flying in the open bedroom windows . . . making my skin undulate in horror"; dropping-boards and chicken lice; wet, cold, soggily miserable winter, "and spring so warm, so lush and fragrant that I wanted to roll on my back and whinny...