Word: works
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supporters that accompanied the patents of nobility won by outstanding men of yesterday for outstanding deeds. After talking to him, Samstag got the idea that the ancient science of heraldry could be used to symbolize the many groups that make up the readership of TIME. The result, after much work by the Promotion Department, was a 28-page, 19 by 24 inch book titled The TIME Audience in Heraldry. In it were 16 shields, of which six are reproduced below, symbolizing the arms that each of these groups of TIME readers might have worn had they lived before heraldry fell...
...Passel of Hatfields. Nobody in Seattle had to be told what the decision meant. As work on B-50s and Strato-cruisers ran out, the Boeing factories would probably become ghost shops. Last week when Air Secretary Stuart Symington dropped in on Seattle enroute to Alaska, the city's leading citizens closed in on him like a passel of Hatfields ambushing a lone McCoy...
...make certain that the old gags and gimmicks will still work, the studio has wrapped them all up in one supercolossal gag. The whole plot takes place on the Warner Bros. lot. Carson and Dennis Morgan, exuding arch embarrassment, play their real-life selves. So do Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn and a few other Warner stars who have been rushed on for bit roles. For ardent movie fans, these peeks at the great may help carry the film. But for most moviegoers, the spoofing is hardly good enough to conceal the laborious spadework...
...Intelligence work" meant almost anything in World War II, from picking up bedroom gossip in Lisbon to sieving through trade statistics in Washington, and almost anybody with a college degree could get into the intriguing act. But when the army needed combat intelligence in a hurry, it usually sent out none but hand-picked "Joes." This fast-moving novel, which won the first $15,000 award of the Catholic Society of the Christophers (TIME, April 14, 1947), tells what happened when the army dropped three volunteers behind the German lines in the last winter of fighting...
Forged Documents. Author Howe himself served in an OSS detachment doing intelligence work with G2, Seventh Army. For this reason, perhaps, his story has an air of solid authenticity when he writes of the training of agents, the forged documents, the mistakes and casualties. He is less successful when he analyzes the motives of Happy and Tiger in betraying their country...