Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sordid Patches. In Berlin, where the Red blockade has thrown thousands out of jobs, most of the women advertisers ask for good providers. Sexy innuendos have proved less effective than ads like this: "War widow in her early forties. Delicate constitution, three children, seeks acquaintance with amiable, responsible gentleman. Object: marriage...
Imported antiSemitism! cried Berlin's U.S.-licensed Tagesspiegel. It was protesting against the expensively produced British movie Oliver Twist, J. Ar thur Rank's cinematic hot potato which the protests of Jewish groups had kept from U.S. screens (TIME, Oct. 4). A short time later, Berliners themselves protested in more destructive fashion at the movie's faithful portrait of Charles Dickens' "Jew Fagin," fence and brutal master of a gang of young thieves...
Oliver Twist had opened without fanfare in a second-rate theater in the British sector, the Kurbel (meaning: the crank). The theater is in a neighborhood heavily populated by Polish Jewish D.P.s. One night last week, D.P.s rioted in the moviehouse, stopped the show, damaged the theater. Berlin Jewish groups and Ernst Reuter, Berlin's mayor, appealed to the British to ban the movie...
...argument, Jessup was a welcome change from the windy speechifying of ailing Delegate Warren Austin and the arm-pumping forensics of Texas' minor statesman, Tom Connally. He soon began to carry more & more of the U.S. load: the debates over Palestine and Indonesia, the showdown last fall on Berlin. After Lawyer Jessup had demolished Lawyer Vishinsky in the Berlin debate with a damning, well-documented indictment of Russian policy (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948), one Western European delegate commented admiringly: "That was the best presentation I've heard from the American side in the three years...
...Until Koerner's paintings were first exhibited in Berlin (TIME, April 28, 1947), his work was virtually unknown...