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...With a brisk rubbing of Republican hands and some licking of chops, the new congressional bosses got down to work. Thursday morning, House and Senate steering committees met. Thursday afternoon, Congressman Joe Martin and Senator Bob Taft made statements to the press. Thursday evening, House and Senate committeemen dined at the Carlton and chewed the fat. Friday morning, New York's busy, noisy John Taber, who will head the Appropriations Committee, met the press. The same morning, Taft and the Senate steering committee went into another conference. Friday noon, all hands got together at lunch. Friday afternoon, Senators huddled...
...your article "End of the Road" [TIME, Oct. 21] your reference to General Stilwell "setting the pace with a brisk 105 steps to the minute" seems quite strange to one subject to Army drill regulations. According to Field Manual 22-5 (Feb. 1946), quick time-the normal cadence of a group marching-is 120 steps per minute. This is surely not a brisk gait. Did TIME make a mistake as to "105 steps to the minute...
...winding, broken, steaming jungle trail, 105 steps to the minute seems pretty brisk to TIME...
...years has seen one or two changes in stage method and technique, and only a very brisk and inventive production-such as Broadway got 16 years ago with Miriam Hopkins, Ernest Truex and Sydney Greenstreet in the cast-can make Lysistrata's joke funny enough for a whole evening. Last week's all-Negro production never even got off to a promising start...
After putting his charges through a brisk workout yesterday afternoon, Coach Henry Lamar commented that his team was improving rapidly...