Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Krock an exclusive interview in 1937, the Washington press corps sizzled with rage at such "favoritism." F.D.R. promptly apologized (his head was "on the block," he said), and most of the newsmen forgave him. Last week Timesman Krock, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his first White House beat,*set White House regulars sizzling again with another exclusive presidential interview (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But Harry Truman had no apologies. At his weekly press conference the next day, correspondents in the first row, close enough to bang on the President's desk, looked mad enough to do it. Harry Truman...
...year. He earns $1,500 for every minute he broadcasts. He is seen & heard-and apparently loved-by 40 million people. His homey, cracker-barrel commercials for tea, cigarettes, furniture polish, floor wax, window cleanser, crackers, shampoos, soup, home permanents, hand lotion and hair tonic set cash registers jingling profitably across the nation. He is the greatest salesman who ever stood before a microphone...
That single all-night show set a pattern that radio is still following. From New York, a lonely girl in the Ritz-Carlton kept phoning him maudlin professions of love. Walter Wirichell was on the phone at 5 a.m., and carried a rave for Godfrey in his column. Just before sunup, Godfrey wished aloud that he had some coffee. About 8,000 Washingtonians got into their cars and drove out with sandwiches and full Thermos bottles...
Musically, Young Man will offend jazz purists, however it may send the jukebox set. Most of the trumpet work, dubbed by Harry James while Douglas goes skillfully through the motions, is badly out of character. It has all of James's technical finesse but it is often nearly as commercial as the kind of music that Trumpeter Douglas rails against. Jazz fans will also be surprised to learn that a Greenwich Village jazz haunt's customers all wear impeccable evening dress...
Since a serious case of pneumonia laid him low last April, 71-year-old John Masefield has been too ill to pursue even the gentle life he set himself at Oxford. It is unlikely that he will follow again in the future either the flags of his youth or the dreams of his middle age, but the zest that once stirred Masefield can still find counterpart in his readers even if theirs is also pretty much just habit...