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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acceptable," "Barely Acceptable," or "Offensive." In last week's first tabulation, nobody was labeled offensive, 14 of the 16 shows squeaked by, and only one-Jimmy Durante-was "Highly Acceptable." Hope was alone in the "Barely Acceptable" class. The pollsters announced that they will keep on listening, will award a prize RAP at the season's end to the comedian with the worst record...
Producer Darryl Zanuck made Agreement his "personal production" (i.e., his bid for the 1947 Academy Award) and gave it everything-notably Moss Hart, who has written a first-rate scenario, and Elia Kazan, who has richly fulfilled his high directorial promise of Boomerang! Kazan's sure hand has bottled John Garfield's carbonated talents into a clear, constrained performance as the hero's Jewish friend; he has massaged Gregory Peck's normally musclebound manner into a good piece of acting as the journalist hero; and he has guided Dorothy McGuire's considerable talents through...
Last week the Nobel Prize Committee awarded this year's Peace Prize ($38,990) jointly to the American Friends' Service Committee in Philadelphia* and the Friends' Service Council in London. According to the will of the late Swedish dynamite-inventor Alfred Nobel, the award is required to be voted "unanimously." This time, said Committee Vice Chairman Carl Joachim, Hambro, it really...
Miss Margaret Witt, Weld Hall veteran of check disorders, said that to save tmie the Boston Finance Division of the Veterans Administration eliminated the award notice telling each veteran how much money he was entitled to. Finance then sent out $65 checks to all, intending to make up the difference by December...
...checks out on time, rather than to short change the customers, was the explanation offered yesterday by the Veterans Office to married veterans who received a $65 award instead of the $90 they expected...