Word: 20th
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Four stay-at-home Russian composers -Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian and Nicolas Miaskovsky-also had a bad day in court last week. They had demanded an injunction against 20th Century-Fox for using snatches of their music in The Iron Curtain (exposing the Soviet spy ring in Canada). Said the four: using their music that way might give somebody the idea they were disloyal to their country. A lower court had already refused the injunction. Last week, the New York Supreme Court's Appellate Division turned it down...
...imagine "Faust" and "The Devil and Daniel Webster" sloppily clad in a 20th Century plot, with Ray Milland as Beelzebub, and you get some idea of what "Alias Nick Beal" is about. And if you've heard the voice on that certain local radio station warning you "never make a dealllll with Nick Bealllll," you have the complete picture...
Died. Sol Bloom, 78, longtime chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (except for the Republican 80th Congress), Democratic Representative from New York's 20th (Manhattan) District since 1923; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. Son of Polish immigrants, onetime song-plugger and showman (he was earning $25,000 a year when he was 18, introduced the hootchy-kootchy at the Chicago World's Fair), admirer of George Washington (he organized the 1932 bicentennial), he entered Tammany politics after successfully retiring from the real-estate business at the age of 50. Internationalist and ardent New Dealer, pince...
...Letter to Three Wives (20th Century...
...Snake Pit (20th Century...