Word: auge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada's CCF socialists, although they still had their leader, Schoolmasterish Major J. Coldwell, had already called a national convention Aug. 19 to furbish up a new platform. This will be their tenth convention...
Ottawa's Coliseum management is more familiar with agricultural fairs than with political conventions, but it hoped to be ready for the Liberals on Aug. 5. Stocky James Gordon Fogo, president of the National Liberal Federation, was equally hopeful of being ready and, after a 29-year lapse, equally unfamiliar with the problems of a national convention...
...Technicolor will be processed on a 24-hour basis. There will be 16 separate versions of it, each highlighting the athletes of a different nation and each in the language of that nation. (Red Barber, Ted Husing and Bill Stern will handle the American language.) The Games end Aug. 14; the world premiere of Rank's XIV Olympiad-The Glory of Sport will be held in London's West End on Sept...
Kefauver was drawing more than crowds. For the first time in many a campaign, an anti-Crumpet had the open backing of many business and professional men. The politicians now thought that he had a fighting chance to win the primary on Aug. 5. Win or lose, they agreed that he was the first man in a long time who had given Ed Crump a good scare...
...holler at the uncomfortable feeling that they had been smudged with soot from a crematory. The title was Waugh's creamy trade name for a corpse. A tale of love and suicide among the morticians of a cemetery that physically resembles Hollywood's fabulous Forest Lawn (TIME, Aug. 24, 1942), The Loved One was either Novelist Waugh's most funereal horse laugh or a retch of glacial rage at two of America's most cherished deceits-its effort to prettify death and to vulgarize love, and hence escape the impact of both. Intellectuals were bitterly divided...