Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your report of Edward Bernays' analysis of what ails our theater [TIME, Oct. 10], no mention is made of poor voices and incomprehensible enunciation. Many of the performers can act fairly well, but only a few of them speak intelligibly . . . There is such a thing yet (or is there?) as your money's worth; and moving figures mumbling quietly to themselves are not worth the price asked...
...years he spent doing the illustrations "could hardly be called work. The project was alive." A native of Salt Lake City, Guy Rowe was a miner, cowhand, mechanic, acrobat, lumberjack and bill collector before he became an artist. His introduction to art came via a vaudeville act in which he drew chalk portraits of people in the audience on a blackboard. He went to art school and became a commercial artist-a field in which he is remembered for the still life portraits he did in the Jello ads. In 1943 he began doing covers for TIME in addition...
...Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. The CEA had been set up to keep the President informed as to the complex economy's ups & downs and in-betweens. On the CEA with Nourse were ardent New Dealer Keyserling, 41, who helped Senator Robert Wagner write the Wagner Act, and John D. Clark, an economic and political anomaly who was onetime vice president and director of Standard Oil of Indiana...
...Moscow. Five officials of the Amtorg Trading Corp., Soviet Russia's commercial arm in the U.S., were installed temporarily in the federal jail until they raised $15,000 bail apiece. Amtorg, which calls itself a private corporation, was indicted for failure to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The Russians (and a sixth who is in Russia) were indicted for their part in the firm's refusal to sign...
...been attacking government spending, "statism," and his opponent's "communist" support, Lehman has gone along with President Truman's domestic policy all the way. The ex-governor and former director of UNRRA has defended the principles of the much-maligned "welfare state," and favors repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, extension of social security, and federal aid to education...