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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spend two nights with his old crony, Washington's Governor Mon Wallgren. But Democratic professionals privately admitted that the junket was designed for only one reason: an attempt to beef up sickly Democratic morale. Taking no chances of skimpy crowds anywhere, National Chairman J. Howard McGrath sent out word to Government workers at every whistle stop that the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rx for Democrats | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...from his office went a memo: "Oscar Dystel, former editor of Coronet magazine, has been appointed managing editor of Collier's, vice [in place of] Joe Alex Morris, resigned . . ." When Joe Morris, who already had the bad news, saw the memo, he took a pencil, crossed out the word "resigned," and walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shake-Up | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...emphasis on brandy, rum or cooking wine, and no live food. Mrs. Lucas regards both taboos as utter nonsense: "Why, when we had lobster thermidor, I had to kill the lobsters before the program, and that's most unhealthy, you know." Next week, in the new last-word television studios CBS is opening in Manhattan, Mrs. Lucas will move into a last-word, specially built kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Airborne Recipes | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

After more than five hours, only two contestants were left-14-year-olds Darrell Flavelle and Jean Chappelear. Jean, a blonde eighth-grader in the Ravenna (Ohio) Township School, had been boning up for weeks. She had been taking word lists on her baby-sitting jobs-and even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Toboggan to Psychiatry | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...soon as the delegation had checked into their rooms at Washington's Hotel Willard, they sat down and wrote a joint letter to the manager. He had misspelled the word "loveliest" on some hotel signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Toboggan to Psychiatry | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

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