Word: wrenchingly
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...wave is forming. Most pilots ease back when they feel it. But some are tempted. Said one: "You feel a surge of excitement and mischievous satisfaction as a gentle nibbling disturbs the controls. Some unreasonable devilment urges you to start the compressibility processes which in a few seconds can wrench all control away from you and plunge the ship into wild, tremendous vibrations...
...Jimmy Byrnes wants to get Allied troops (about 75% of them Russian) out of the country. The Balkans were sure to provide fireworks. With such obstacles ahead, optimism had to be well qualified. Asked how the conference was going, one U.S. official cracked: "Nobody has yet thrown a monkey wrench...
Last week, the Securities & Exchange Commission dropped a wrench in Handy Andy's plans. It charged that Manhattan brokers Van Alstyne, Noel & Co., specifically David Van Alstyne Jr.*, had sold stock in Higgins, Inc., before its stock registration statement had been filed with SEC. If the charges are proved, SEC may revoke, or suspend the brokerage company's permit to deal in securities. If that happens, Andy Higgins may have to shop around for another broker...
Hollywood Pinafore (book & lyrics by George S. Kaufman; music by Sir Arthur Sullivan; produced by Max Gordon). Hard on the heels of Memphis Bound (TIME, June 4), which throws a monkey wrench into the music of H.M.S. Pinafore, conies Hollywood Pinafore, which runs a saw through the libretto. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., is now a timid tyrant of a producer (Victor Moore); Dick Deadeye is Dick Live-Eye (William Gaxton), a rapacious agent. Ralph Rackstraw (Gilbert Russell) is a lowlier writer than he was a tar; and Little Buttercup is Little ButterUp, a gurgling columnist named Louhedda Hopsons (Shirley Booth...
...Machine Gun. The President's radio coach was James Leonard Reinsch (rhymes with wrench), 37, managing director of the James M. Cox radio stations in Dayton, Atlanta and Miami. Picked by the Democratic National Committee to handle its radio activities, Reinsch coached Truman during and after last fall's campaign. Before he started working on him, Reinsch said, Truman talked like a machine...