Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking of mail, the money conscience executives of radio's front offices pull programs off the air if the public falls to evince enough interest as judged by volume of correspondence. So if you wish jazz over the radio to continue, take out your pen and paper and drop a line to the programs mentioned above and listen to them regularly...
...wrote it all up in a report that ran to 31 typewritten pages-and I wish we'd had the room in TIME to bring you all his stories-about Marine Edwards whose name must go on the long list of men whose lives have been saved by bullet-bouncing Bibles . . . about the bettingest man in the First Division, who won $29,000 but lost his furlough privilege on the turn of a card and never did get home . . . about the night-club owner in San Diego who almost turned Sgt. Owen Justin away because his identification card...
...going to find the spiritual values that will be needed in the postwar world? We pray for our boys, but perhaps it would be better for us to pray for ourselves that we might have the courage to keep America the kind of a place to which they will wish to return...
Died. James C. ("Bud") Mars, 68, pioneer world-touring balloonist and aviator who gave Hirohito his first plane ride in Tokyo in 1911; of heart disease; in Santa Monica, Calif. A circus high diver who learned to fly in 1908, Mars recently said of his most notable flight: "I wish we had crashed in Tokyo...
...Producer Darryl Zanuck, a Republican, pointed out last December, it might just as easily have proved helpful to Wendell Willkie, board chairman of 20th Century-Fox, whose One World Zanuck will produce if Wilson clicks. And Wilson is so patently sincere that even its stoutest ideological opponents may well wish Darryl Zanuck luck when he grimly announces that if Wilson flops: "I'll never again make a picture without Betty Grable...