Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the past month hundreds of you have written us about TIME'S story on Marian Anderson (Dec. 30). Seldom, if ever, has a story in TIME evoked such a wide and warm response. For those of you who wrote in, and for those who didn't, the following may serve to answer some of your inquiries and comments...
...savored the power of office more than Andrew J. May of Kentucky. As wartime chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, he reveled in having generals at his beck & call. If a "warm friend" or a good constituent wanted a favor (perhaps a war contract, perhaps a son sent to O.C.S.), Andy would pick up a phone, summon the official to his office, and arrange it on the spot...
Last week a District of Columbia federal grand jury returned indictments charging May, his "warm friends" Murray and Henry Garsson, and the Garsson's Washington business agent Joseph F. Freeman, with conspiring to defraud the Government. May was accused of accepting $16,000 in checks and cash from the Garssons and arranging for the payment...
...Loon's notions on that subject in the avuncular Van Loon style (history as kiddy talk), but they will learn from this autobiography very little about Van Loon. It appears to have been designed for a leisurely, Montaignesque 700 pages and unfortunately ends just when it begins to warm the heart...
...nights in the spring of 1939 fell with an epic quality of warm air and light-headedness and sap swimming and voluptuous dreaming. The Samsonic day lost its locks to the beguiling Deliahlike night. A dark down hued her epidermis, but the male day, with its redheaded brilliance and reeking strength, was subdued by her, and her charms held the insects chirming...