Word: behind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful, disturbing piece of cinema realism. On the face of it. the film is a social satire: a hilarious lampoon of British provincial society, an ironic study of Angry Young Manners and morals, a Swiftian extravaganza on the problems of a social climber in a society without stairs. But behind the comic mask there is the tragedy of social change, which is here expounded as the agony of moral growth, as the spiritual disaster of a young man who might be called the Julien Sorel of the welfare state...
...curate behind the ribbons at St. John the Baptist's is the Rev. Narbrough Hughes D'Aeth, 58, and three years ago he was an R.A.F. air vice-marshal, with a C.B. (Companion of the Bath) and C.B.E. (Commander Order of the British Empire) after his name. A professional fighting man with a record of service around the world and the long habit of command, he now works at the beck and call of St. John's aging and nearly blind vicar, the Rev. Andrew Nugee, must tumble out of bed to take early service when...
...Ingersoll announced a 45% hike in earnings, noted that Borg-Warner has "a very substantial portion" of the parts orders for the Ford and General Motors small cars. Admiral Corp., reported a profit on a sales rise of 15%. Said President Ross D. Siragusa: "All the bad things are behind...
...year-the most optimistic projection this year. His optimism was based on the rising production of the industry (1,683,326 autos to date compared to 1,290,587 last year) and a big bulge at Ford. Preliminary sales figures for March showed that Ford, which had lagged slightly behind Chevrolet in February, had nudged it out of first place in March, 130,800 to Chevy's 130,600. With sales rising, Ford upped its production quota for the second quarter in its Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln Division by more than 30%. Pontiac stepped into third place in March with...
...officers and men who volunteered for "dangerous and hazardous" duty overseas. Under command of Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill, they were formed into the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a name more appropriate to a laundry battalion than to a detachment trained to fight far behind the Japanese lines in Burma. TIME-LIFE Correspondent James Shepley salved the unit's pride by christening it "Merrill's Marauders...