Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Dichter made another notable survey for American Airlines, to explain why many people had never ridden in planes. A main reason, announced Dichter, was fear of "posthumous embarrassment"-i.e., people don't mind being killed in a crash as much as they worry about friends who might say complacently: "Well, I told him never to go up in a plane...
...nothing . . . was further removed from Konoye's mind than to engage upon war with the British Empire or the United States." Foreign Minister Shigemitsu, who signed the Japanese surrender, was "a man of confirmed liberal views, consistently opposed to any policy of aggression and aggrandisement." To explain his own action in remaining in the government in spite of his anti-war bias, Author Kase declares that he "was told that under the circumstances my resignation could not be accepted...
Then Kirkpatrick went on to explain just what it would take to get right with the committee again. He had once been forced to apologize publicly after Actor Fredric March and his wife Florence Eldridge had convincingly denied his charges that they were Communists. But he was not prepared to accept Actress Muir's denials so easily. "Times have changed since then," he said...
...fight much more than narrow departmental esprit de corps, more than the questionable methods that were used by the Navy in its desperate attempt to make its points. At Annapolis he absorbed the great U.S. tradition of sea power-the tradition that led U.S. Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan to explain to the British how they won and held their empire, the tradition which explains Winston Churchill's grasp of strategic problems...
...Anyone Explain and Dream a Little Dream of Me (Dinah Shore, with male quartet; Columbia). Dinah back in her best, closer-than-breathing form with an up & coming new ballad and a standard...