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...Cleveland events followed the now-familiar Willkie pattern: terrific buildup, hysterical ovation, a solid, sound, sensible but not stirring speech. Crowds were huge, friendly, happy, excited. To the Public Auditorium they came, to sit with the stage partitions opened up, so that two enormous audiences faced each other across a great divide...
...Willkie speeches fitted into a pattern in which specific legislative and economic proposals alternated with general discussions of Wendell Willkie's basic political views. In Los Angeles he talked of taxation, in San Francisco, of foreign policy, in Portland, of power, in Seattle, labor, in Omaha, the farm problem, in Cleveland, defense, in Pittsburgh, again labor. But between these talks that bore on what he planned to do if elected were reaffirmations of principles-harking back to the pattern of democratic education (Coffeyville), to the position of women in democratic and totalitarian societies (Detroit)-as if he were attempting...
Walliser has written, directed and produced scripts for the past eleven years-more than 3,000 scripts, 12,000 shows. Nearly all have followed the soap-opera pattern. Just Plain Bill, Backstage Wife, The Romance of Helen Trent are among those he has directed. For three years he provided ideas for The Gumps for Sidney Smith, quit soon after Smith died. He now writes his stuff so fast he can't remember any of his sequences. After listening to three-quarters of a Peter Quill episode of last year, he admitted he had no idea how it would turn...
...first news of Indo-China, there was no preparation for this jump. Since World War II began, U. S. citizens have grown accustomed to a well-grooved pattern of U. S. diplomatic action-condemnations of aggression accompanied, now & then, with reports of new loans to China; the impounding of the assets of conquered nations, together with increasing restrictions on exports to Japan; the strengthening of ties with Latin America, together with reports of increased aid to Great Britain. Such has been the characteristic pattern of U. S. foreign policy: defensive, gloomy, hesitant, and principally concerned with establishing the moral superiority...
...Pattern. No matter what its mission beyond London, each plane flew up a lane roughly parallel to the Thames Estuary, roared over London to keep citizens awake or in cellars, branched out on its job, then flew back by the same route. Because many planes which had not found or had been driven away from their objectives jettisoned their bombs at random in this lane, and because there were plenty of targets there anyhow, it was dubbed Hell's Corridor...