Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy headquarters at Pearl Harbor received a letter from Mrs. John S. Campbell of Elizabethton, Tenn., enclosing one wilted daisy and a note: "In loving memory of our son, William Vane Campbell, killed Dec. 7 on ship U.S.S. Oklahoma." On Navy Day, a plane dropped the daisy over the spot where the Oklahoma sank. To Mrs. Campbell, the Navy sent a message: "Your flower has been delivered...
Hell's bells--or, if you will,--Cambridge bells's are hardly a subject for favorable comment alone. I was particularly surprised to note that the article entitled "It Tolls For Thee" was written by my roommate, Arthur Solmssen, who has asked me to keep my alarm clock in the living room because the ticking annoys him. I was certain that Arthur would prefer telling time by the sun to listening to a campanological free-for-all 96 times...
...State Department, after privately landing on the Immigration Service with both feet, composed an apologetic note that made the Mexicans feel happier. The braceros were at work. The incident was closed...
...pushed too far. Said he in Los Angeles: "Both sold their souls to the Devil, but my hero is much more representative of the tragedy of the times." Mann, now 73, has been carrying the Faustus idea around for two-thirds of his life ("I wrote the first little note for it in 1901"). His preoccupation with illness goes back at least that far. Mann does not believe that illness is a source of artistic activity, "but if genius already exists, it stimulates it. It depends on who is sick. If it is a Nietzsche or a Dostoevsky . . ." Mann...
When the crowd quieted finally, he began. He spoke for half an hour and there wasn't a harsh note in the whole speech. It had all the acid bits of a bowl of breakfast cereal. If the speech was at all typical of the whole tour, then Dewey has made the mildest the blandest campaign for major political office in America in this century...