Word: whetted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of TIME'S editors manage to take a yearly junket or two in the U.S. or overseas to whet their working knowledge of the countries and things they write about-but not the Managing Editor. He's stuck. Among a host of other duties, he has to edit every piece of copy that goes into TIME each week (he has, he says, a basilisk's eye complicated by journalist's cataract). So it was good news to me that T. S. Matthews had gotten away for a week's trip by chartered plane...
...pitched horseshoes to whet his appetite for a birthday luncheon party in the office of Attorney General Tom Clark. The party was gay. Even the six Supreme Court Justices present guffawed when the finically dressed President put on a roguish Texas sombrero. Carefree as a boy, Harry Truman sliced a toothsome birthday cake with three flickering candles-for the past, present and future...
Last week Publishers Rinehart & Co. (who had read about the sailor's trouble in TIME) satisfied his curiosity and hoped to whet a lot of other people's, by bringing out the first U.S. edition...
...Orchestra for four Sunday concerts. His purpose: to introduce contemporary British music to Americans, just as he has introduced it to Australians, New Zealanders, Swedes, Palestinian Jews and British war workers. Pleased to find U.S. familiarity with the works of Sir Edward Elgar (Pomp and Circumstance), he hopes to whet a U.S. appetite for Vaughan Williams, Gustav Hoist, William Walton and John Ireland...
...beginning to look as if someone ought to make up Henry Luce's mind. After a series of articles on the contributions of America's colleges to the war effort, LIFE's feature in last week's issue on what goes on in Indiana University is enough to whet the propaganda pencil of any Axis spokesman. If LIFE's editors are to be listened to, students in our colleges are having a riot of a time making pick-ups in libraries, wearing zoot suits, and playing havoc with the sanity of their professors...