Word: auge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life with Father. The stage hit sumptuously done up into solid, rather stoutish Technicolor entertainment with William Powell as Father and Irene Dunne as Mother (TIME, Aug...
...paraders also carried double-life-size portraits of Stalin, Bulgarian Communist Boss Georgi Dimitroff and General Markos, self-proclaimed head of the "Free Greek State" (TIME, Aug. 25). The marchers' song told of the exploits of Greek guerrillas. Leaflets strewn in their wake read: "Death to Monarcho-Fascists; Out with Anglo-American invaders; Long live the Free Greek State." A poster showed a Greek guerrilla standing atop the Acropolis; in Bulgarian, French and English were the words: "Out of the flames and ruins of Anglo-American occupation and Monarcho-Fascism, a free and democratic Greece is rising...
Said Leo Dolan, boss of the Dominion's Travel Bureau, last week: An "abnormal season. . . . We ought to hit . ". . $230 to $240 million this year." That was less than the $300 million expected by some Canadians earlier this year (TIME, Aug. 4), but it would still easily top the peak of $214 million spent by 21,282,000 visitors from...
...Matter of Diplomacy. Father Lassalle found that isolated Brazilian Japanese had been terrorizing "defeatists" among their own people who spread "rumors" of Japan's surrender (TIME, Aug. 26, 1946). Merchants who told the truth were boycotted; at least 14 "rumor spreaders" were said to have been murdered. Even letters from home were denounced as a Yankee trick. Some stubbornly believed that the Emperor of Japan would soon become Emperor of the world. Meanwhile, Sao Paulo swindlers cleaned up selling passage on non-existent ships to new non-existent Japanese colonies...
Hollywood is in the dreadful predicament of a pauperized nabob suddenly reduced to four limousines. Oldtimers are telling newtimers that the town has never been so scared. Chief apparent reason: the new "confiscatory" British tax, which would rob Hollywood of its comfortable profit margin (TIME, Aug...