Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were none of the boisterous des-camisado parades and mass meetings which have usually marked the great day. Instead, hardly a newspaper appeared throughout all Argentina to remind the workers what day it was. To protest the government's failure to settle the three-week-old strike of Buenos Aires' newspaper typographers (TIME, Feb. 21), printers had chosen that day to call a nationwide stoppage...
...conference he ironically repeated a slogan which was rather admired in the agency: "Every day an oily coating slowly forms upon the skin." Cried Marquand, as he remembers it: "My God, do you realize that line scans?-'Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime!' By that time," says Marquand, "it was clear that I wasn't taking copywriting quite seriously enough." He decided to go back to Newburyport, try to write fiction...
...Samples: a jug-nursing old gentleman (Alan Napier) who makes a specialty of planning complex holdups; the robbery of an armored car (in which Lancaster is a guard), a rare sport among real-life or cinema crooks; so much double-crossing that the cast almost needs military maps to remind them who is on whose side at any given moment...
Cigars, Pecans. Some of his callers left gifts: a box of Philippine cigars (though Harry Truman does not smoke), a 10-lb. sack of pecans from a Louisiana Congressman (to remind him that there was an overproduction problem in pecans), a pair of engraved brass spurs (from the citizens of Monahans, Tex.). More were looking for presidential favors: Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall (a job for a friend), Philadelphia Realtor Albert Greenfield (a speech date), San Diego Journal Editor John Kennedy (a veterans' hospital...
...Past-this Christmas issue of TIME, with its reports on how Americans are moving into the Christmas of 1948, may serve to remind you of some of TIME'S Christmas stories of other years...