Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tito, whose first wife is dead, is currently married to a thirtyish, pretty graduate of Belgrade's School of Business Administration, but she is kept in the background (he is rumored to have a mistress). He has chosen ex-King Peter's palace at Bled for his summer residence, ex-Regent Paul's Bell Dvor (White Palace) on Belgrade's Dedinje Hill for his town house (it has Belgrade's only good air-raid shelter...
...translation help, for 85% of them speak one or more foreign languages. This versatility gets more useful every day now that foreign publications are reaching America again in almost prewar quantity-and, of course, articles written for foreign audiences in their native tongues are a rich source of background information and local color. (Most difficult to translate, observes one Foreign News researcher, are the captions under the cartoons. The reason is a wry one coming from TIME-she says the lines are "too condensed, too colloquial...
...question. Most researchers settled for honesty, a sense of humor, patience, fortitude, a knowledge of his field, and respect for his researcher. Said one: "If he just has a sense of TIME - which implies writing ability, imagination, a sense of humor, etc., a researcher can kick in with the background and the wheels of journalism can really revolve...
Graebner's background is not entirely typical of G.I. students (most of whom have no profession yet) but his budgeting problems are. A University of Chicago School of Business survey reported last week: "Veterans attending college in the Chicago area cannot live on their Government allowance, but must dip into savings or take outside jobs to meet expenses." The figures: the average single man spends $115 a month, the average married man $165. The Government allowances...
Sanders Theatre is the scene of the performance, which will be complete with costumes and background music. The cast is under the direction of William A. West '49 and Miss Georgina Johnston, of the Yale School of Drama and assistant curator of the Theatre Collection at Widener Library...