Word: april
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actress Bergman is all for Rossellini's non-Hollywood method. If she can begin he picture in April, it will probably be released next fall. Meanwhile, Rossellini is quietly turning down all Hollywood offers. Says he: "I am not one who says Hollywood is terrible . . . Hollywood is a great place. It is like a sausage factory that turns out fine sausages. I go back to Italy where I have freedom...
...painting, a 14th Century Sienese tempera of Saint Thomas the Apostle, believed the work of Simone Martini and valued at $3,000 to $5,000, had disappeared from the Museum's wall almost five years ago (TIME, April 3, 1944). The young saint in his fancy gold halo and blue-green cloak looked as serene as ever, though the panel had broken in two and a few flakes of paint had fallen...
...with thinning black hair, a limp, and the smile of a tired elf, took a party of friends to see the new Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate. The show is such a smash hit that ordinary playgoers find it impossible to get seats for any performance sooner than next April. Seats are just a little harder to get because this one satisfied customer has been buying up so many of them. At a cost of more than $1,000, Cole Porter, who wrote the music and lyrics for Kiss Me, Kate, took 97 of his friends along on opening night...
Next week, Dr. Lawrence Hafstad, 44, the division's first chief, will begin his enormous task of pacifying the atom. Born in Minneapolis of Norwegian parents, he worked his way through the University of Minnesota as a telephone maintenance man. In April 1939, young Dr. Hafstad got in on the ground floor of nuclear energy by publishing, with associates, the first paper on "delayed neutrons." Delayed neutrons make an atomic pile possible: they allow time for adjusting its speed of reaction...
Final applications should be filed before April 1, 1949, according to the law school's announcement...