Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicity handouts often bear the names of Comedian Zero Mostel, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Dancer Sono Osato, Boogie-Woogie Artist Hazel Scott, Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler, Radio Writer Norman Corwin, Composer Earl Robinson, Conductor Rudolph Ganz, Astronomer Harlow Shapley, Novelist Thomas Mann. And ICCASP's stable of talent also embraces college professors, atomic scientists, advertising writers, book critics, and coveys of ballet dancers-classic or modern...
...sometimes ICCASP's undergraduate enthusiasm is a little too much for politicos to bear. At a Jackson Day dinner in Los Angeles last spring, at which the Committee was set to shower its kisses on Henry Wallace, its favorite son, Henry was preceded on the speaker's program by Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Jerry Colonna, Burns & Allen, Edward G. Robinson, George Jessel, Mickey Rooney, Margaret O'Brien, Frank Sinatra and Bette Davis. So, by the time hapless Henry got up to talk...
Shirley Temple taking a snort in her next picture was too much for W.C.T.U. President Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin to bear; she protested to the studio that youth everywhere might be inspired to do likewise. But the studio set her at ease; the drink would be something unthinkable-Scotch and bourbon mixed-and Shirley would spit it out in horror...
...gesture . . . does not mean that the Protestants have overcome their anxiety about the Catholic Church [But] the point is that Christians (and Jews) everywhere realize that unless the moral forces in the world are brought to bear jointly in the cause of justice and peace, power politics in general and the cleavage between Russia and the West in particular will bring the peoples of the world to a holocaust ruinous literally for generations. Interfaith collaboration in this area is of the essence now. . . . Our duty here is plain...
...Nothing could bring more peace of mind to France than the fulfillment tomorrow of that prediction, but just what the French are doing to make it come true could not be accurately ascertained by this reporter. The wine is good, though, and the dress shops and perfume counters again bear testimony to that peculiar aspect of French genius. Thanks to the industrious, if not too successful efforts of the dye industry, France today is a nation of blonde women and dark men--certainly an interesting biological phenomenon. Paris, August...