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...real-estate agent told me," broadcast CBS's Larry Lesueur from London, "that the reason for London's failure to beautify itself after its first cleansing fire 300 years ago was that businessmen then were so eager to get back to work that they threw up any sort of building, just so that they would be in a position to do business. It's feared there will be a similar rush to get any kind of office going after this war is over...
When Wendell Willkie arrived by plane in England one day this week, the country was enjoying comparative quiet. A transport had shuttled him from Lisbon to a western England airport. As the plane came down, Mr. Willkie was impatiently striding up & down the aisle; the bump of the landing threw Mr. Willkie flat. Back on his feet and brushed off, he burst out of the cabin door. "I never felt better in my life," he exclaimed. To reporters who knew who he was but wanted to know what he was, he said, "I am just Wendell Willkie," and hopped...
...Masterpiece was commissioned by Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts, an up-&-coming outfit spark plugged by an energetic socialite, Mrs. Clarence A. Warden. The Academy paid Composer Nordoff all it could afford-$200-for 25 minutes of music, and he threw in a dozen extra minutes gratis. His tricky rhythms, his obstinate tunes might have stumped an even more experienced company, but the Academy singers-notably pretty Soprano Doris Blake-and a small orchestra under Conductor Vernon Hammond pulled into the final cadence without a grind or a bump. The Masterpiece (libretto by Franklin Brewer) told, with...
London. Said Alfred Landon, who has backed the President in aid to Britain, who threw his delegates to Wendell Willkie at Philadelphia: "If Mr. Willkie had revealed [his position] before the Republican National Convention he would not have been nominated, and if Mr. Roosevelt had revealed it before election he would not have been re-elected...
...Logical, simple and direct, he despises ostentation. When he was coordinator of the Resettlement Administration, he got sick of Administrator Rexford Tugwell's bright young men who loved to sit around the conference table waggling their Phi Beta Kappa keys. One day the colonel marched into conference, casually threw back his coat and exposed, on a heavy brass chain, a souvenir hotel key large enough to choke a horse. Last week the colonel scored another point, just as quietly...