Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another American fighting a homesick war in the Pacific, Captain Harold E. Stassen had plenty of time and inclination to wonder what all the shooting was about back home. Last week Civilian Stassen stood up before the Manhattan convention of the National Association of Manufacturers-and unfolded a plan marked by the patriotic optimism that veterans know well. What he suggested was, in effect, a U.S. conference-on the lines of the UNO conference at San Francisco-of the U.S. people, and a Ten-Year Plan. Said...
Calmly confident, Army's cadets bet that their wonder team would collect a touchdown in four plays. Said Navy's grim Coach Oscar Hagberg: "Army can't call its shots against us. We're not that bad." To find out, President Truman and 102,000 other fans last week jammed Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium...
...Army. After making the Academy Award picture, The Song of Bernadette, Goetz quit in a huff when Zanuck returned and began acting like a "little colonel" around the studio. Goetz approached dark, dapper Leo Spitz, 57, Hollywood's legal and financial know-it-all. A boy wonder (he earned his Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Jurisprudence degrees before he was 21), Spitz masterminded the reorganization of both RKO and Paramount when they were on the rocks...
...Joseph. And we came to Bethlehem to see if we can have some place-find some place to stay. And that's all you have to know really." In the stable, an angel sits on a ladder and wise men and shepherds stand by and wonder as the Christ Child-an 18-month-old- stands up and waves to the audience from a clothesbasket. The play's "dialogue" was made up by a group of kindergartners after Director McCarey gave them the rough idea. McCarey claims "it was one of the most difficult sequences" he ever directed...
...Government financial institutions last week got transfusions of fresh blood. To the $10,000-a-year chairmanship of the Export-Import Bank, fellow Missourian Harry Truman named boyish, earnest William McChesney Martin Jr., 39, onetime Wonder Child of Wall Street. The $48,000-a-year president of the New York Stock Exchange from 1938 to 1941, Martin was drafted into the Army as a private. By war's end he was a full colonel...