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...reminisced Hope, "are they quick on the trigger." Once, toward the end of an all-night show, he propagandized his soldier audience: "The United States needs you." Quick as a wink, a voice shot back: "We need the United States." Hope had no comeback to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: World's Greatest Audience | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...learned the ropes. Even the Dean's Office held no terrors for him, and the grin which he reserved for baby deans, before whom he once had quailed visibly, was only matched by the wink to the secretary as he strolled through the double doors of University 4. Yes, he was set now. Contracts signed, room fixed, and a little black book of telephone numbers to forestall those lonely walks toward the Radcliffe quad. A pounding of footsteps interrupted his thoughts, and he stepped aside just in time to avoid the oncoming rush of Yardlings trying to beat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 6/27/1942 | See Source »

...really tough spot that even he can't get out of. His patriotism is above reproach. As the mightiest, fightingest American, he ought to join up. But he just can't. In the combat services he would lick the Japs and Nazis in a wink, and the war isn't going to end that soon. On the other hand, he can't afford to lose the respect of millions by failing to do his bit or by letting the war drag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Superman's Dilemma | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...send a ladder truck down last spring to get a Lampoon man off the roof of his own building." But feeling in the delta of Cambridge Street and Broadway is friendly to the Harvards. "They don't give us much trouble," one burly engine-driver confided with a wink, "but if they don't each buy a ticket to our next ball we'll let the whole damn College burn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 11/7/1941 | See Source »

...been fun, but I would have liked to hear some of the answers." Her only kick against Harvard men was that she "hates to have them say Wellesley girls are popular and cute, and Radcliffe girls such students drips. They're not all, you know," she added with a wink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 350 Upperclassmen Asked to Eliot House Dance By Radcliffe Freshman | 11/6/1941 | See Source »

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