Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after they had decided on a director-general, an 18-man executive board and a plan of action. If the optimists were right, UNESCO might become a battering ram, capable of knocking down national barriers to international understanding. If the cynics were right, UNESCO would be just another grandiose 20th Century balloon, with a big cheer at the ascension but in the end just a bag of wind. One basic drawback: Soviet Russia so far has not joined...
...Leave, No Love (MGM) and Three Little Girls in Blue (20th Century...
...Darling Clementine (20th Century-Fox) is horse opera for the carriage trade. Directed by John Ford, who made the smashingly successful Stagecoach eight years ago, the new picture invites comparison to that old near-classic. And Clementine does indeed closely resemble Stagecoach. Nonetheless it is a rattling good movie full of gusto, gunplay and romance...
Engaged. Daphne Dolores Mercedes Skouras, 24, daughter of cinema tycoon (20th Century-Fox) Spyros Skouras; and Oren Root Jr., 35, Manhattan lawyer, grandnephew of the late great Elihu Root, organizer of the clubs that won Wendell Willkie the Republican presidential nomination...
...Christian Endeavor Building, just across from the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children and nigh unto the stronghold of the Anti-vivisection League. In the midst of two city blocks of good-doings, this traditionally New England watchdog of morality slowly undergoes a transition that may transform a 20th Century Inquisition into a same, if overexcited, organ of public conscience. From out of this holy-of-holies stop Beacon Hill have come some of the most astonishing misconceptions of the public stood since the scholastics counted angles on pinpoints, and from this same stern eyric now comes...