Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recognized the new government of Panama last week. But, as Secretary of State Dean Acheson implied at his press conference, this merely meant an admission by the U.S. that brazen Arnulfo Arias had caught the brass ring on Panama's political merry-go-round. "The act of recognition," said the Secretary, "does not constitute approval of the manner in which the present government came into power. We have, in fact, publicly deplored the means by which the political changes in Panama since Nov. 19 were effected...
Readily recognizable art played second fiddle at the Whitney, except for a couple of standout pictures. Jack Levine's Act of Legislature-a dull-looking chap in a toga stabbing a half-naked girl-was a vivid, if highly unpleasant, mixture of lust and righteous rage. At the Sea a Girl was a pompously titled new departure for Henry Koerner, one of the country's most promising young painters. With even more ambiguous symbolism than that which characterized his last exhibition (TIME, Feb. 21), Koerner had painted a girl hauled from the ocean while an uncurious crowd fished...
Wagner: Die Walküre, Duet from Act I, Scene 3; Act III complete (Helen Traubel, soprano; Herbert Janssen, baritone; Emery Darcy, tenor; vocal ensemble of the Metropolitan Opera; the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 4 sides, LP). Great music sung by great singers. Conductor Rodzinski gives it the pace and force to make it an exciting performance. Recording: excellent...
Wagner: Siegfried, Act III, Scene 3 (Eileen Farrell, soprano, Set Svanholm, tenor; Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf conducting; Victor, 10 sides, 45 r.p.m.). The great music again, with not quite so fine a cast, conductor and orchestra to go with it. Recording: good...
...C.I.O., which has frequently demanded a look at a company's balance sheet, last week for the first time disclosed its own, as required by the Taft-Hartley Act. In the C.I.O. News, the union said that on Sept. 30 it had a net worth of $1,480,313, "about 25? for each C.I.O. union member" in the U.S. On this basis, C.I.O. membership was 5,900,000. The union listed its year's income at $3,040,390, and expenditures at $2,883,215. It set forth that its net worth had increased $157,175 since...