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...Country & For Yale. Bob Lovett, Wall Streeter (partner in Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.), director in half-a-dozen railroads, banks and insurance companies, went to Washington in December 1940 as an assistant to Secretary of War Stimson (whom he reveres as a great and effective official). He was no tyro at the flying game, as Army men speedily discovered when they looked up his record...
...press Mr. Roosevelt gave a free headline: "President Quotes Lincoln and Draws Parallel." Many a U.S. newspaper used the headline; and the New York (tabloid) Daily Mirror decided to give Mr. Roosevelt a check for a tyro head-writer's daily pay, sent him $5.94, deducting 6? for Social Security...
...boys, it seems to me, is the fact that they're giving Harvardmen a pretty good education in piano jazz. Their work is not a puerile brand of music which can be quickly dismissed, and at the same time it's sufficiently simple to arouse the interest of the tyro. Finally, it's been a very good build-up for what's going to happen tonight on the Network. Earl Hines will be down there from 7:30 to 8:00 (prior to doing a one-nighter at Paul Revere Hall). The "Father," who will be interviewed by jazz critic...
...child seems to have a bad cold. He coughs & sneezes, his nose runs, so do his eyes. He is feverish. His neck is swollen, throat sore, tongue furry. At this point an experienced parent or doctor will suspect measles. After a blotchy red rash appears, the veriest tyro knows...
...tyro collection, Company D's men originally were all Regular Army tankers. Many of its veterans had served two, three and even four enlistments. But, by last week, Company D had few veterans left. Some of the company's best men had been shifted to schools for rookies, or to new companies, or to the First Armored Division at Fort Knox, Ky. Still more had been ordered to report to the Third and Fourth Armored Divisions, now being organized. This dispersion was inevitable in the expanding new Army; but this knowledge did not comfort Company...