Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this writing Editor Hall has received more than 300 airmail letters. He wonders: "What do you suppose will happen when the boat mail begins to arrive?" Although a majority of the letters bear a U.S. postmark, others have come from Continental Europe, Latin America, and as far away as Wendji-Coq in the Belgian Congo. Furthermore, to Hall's surprise and gratification, 90% of the letters enclose subscription orders. Says he: "What impresses me is the complete faith TIME readers must have in their magazine. Almost every letter had in it money or checks. To have money sent...
...Stan Musial with a slow, change-of-pace curve; Musial eyed it carefully and whaled the ball over the right-field fence. In his box, the Dodgers' Branch Rickey generously remarked: "That Musial is a great hitter." The wallop was just a foretaste of what was going to happen to Brooklyn. The Cards won that game, 3-1, won the second game...
...where he was lounging about in soiled white shorts, with his barrel chest a magnificent brown, Picasso left off playing with his son long enough to deny that he was being domesticated. Grumbled Papa Picasso: "My painting hasn't changed, my subjects haven't changed. If I happen to paint a little girl it is because she happens to be at hand. If a piece of wood were at hand I would paint...
...people of Hiroshima in 1945, the Venetians of 1849 had plenty of warning that something bizarre was coming off. The Austrians, who perpetrated the deed, allowed rumors of a "secret weapon" to reach Venice in advance, and one Venetian artist drew a picture of what he thought would happen (see cut) and peddled it in the streets...
Moviegoers often fret about Tarzan's morals, and write in to ask if he and Jane are married (they are not). Fans also want to know the origin of Tarzan's child (he was found in the jungle, of course), and how Tarzan and Jane happen to be living together in a tree house without benefit of clergy. Says Producer Lesser, loftily: "It has never been suggested that Tarzan and Jane share the same...