Word: morrisonism
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Home Secretary Herbert Morrison and an agile-kneed schoolboy, Leonard Mitchell, were the winners. Leonard pedaled his bike furiously, through lanes of bridge workmen perched on railings, reached the Waterloo (South) end of the bridge ahead of the nearest chugging taxi. Exulted Leonard: "It will be something to remember...
...Herbert Morrison, away from London on business, commented: "It was a historic struggle." Since 1924 he had fought for replacement of the old, sagging Waterloo Bridge-first within the London County Council, which owned it; then against London taxpayers, who feared they would have to pay for the new bridge; against the Times, which allowed: "London does not need and positively must be spared a new six-lane bridge"; against Stanley Baldwin's Government, which refused a building subsidy. Churchill's Government reversed that decision, will pay 60% of the building bill...
...voice belongs to a mousy little man: the Chicago Sun's 130-lb., 42-year-old Chester Morrison, a pinch hitter who joined CBS's world-news roundup (6:45 p.m., E.W.T.) last month and has been delivering home runs ever since...
Artfully sidestepping the censors, Morrison rumbled his warnings of the grim consequences of Allied defeat in the desert, begged for American men and American equipment, dramatized the vague Libyan-Egyptian front within an inch of his listeners' lives. Announced he in a first broadcast: "I'm going up to the desert where other people are fighting my battle-Englishmen and Indians and South Africans and New Zealanders. Let us know when you're coming, Americans. We'll bake a cake...
Last week, when things were supposed to be looking better, Morrison cabled: "In military phraseology, the positions are still being described as 'fluid.' When the present pressure is relieved, perhaps someone will compile a glossary of military cliches for the benefit of people living in a homelier world. Certainly such a glossary would contain the word 'fluid,' probably translated for the layman in this way: 'Our boys are catching hell and the outcome is uncertain...