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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest Easter Parade in Manhattan's history; in the bright, brisk sunlight at noon perhaps a million people were gathered in one decorous, milling, well-dressed throng. Fifth Avenue, clear of buses and motorcars, was packed almost solid from St. Patrick's to St. Thomas', and great eddies of the crowd moved and flowed along streets and sidewalks for blocks around...
British Actor-Playwright Robert Morley, who has picked up a few prizes in Manhattan for his biggest hit, Edward, My Son, had some thoughts as he prepared to return to London. He was "amazed" at the U.S. public's respect, "almost veneration," for English actors. "It's very lucky for us, of course," he conceded, "but it stultifies the American theater . . . You are always giving prizes and awards to English playwrights and players, a practice which in reverse would never be permitted in England...
History is a subject which still puts a premium on the memory. If you have a reasonably good one, if you can read a book and digest it--history isn't an awfully hard field. The biggest thing history has to offer is considerable range and freedom of choice. Six courses are all that are needed for concentration...
Shipping. The U.S. Maritime Commission gave the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. the go-ahead to build the biggest liner ever constructed in a U.S. shipyard, a 48,000-tonner to cost $70,373,000 (TIME, Aug. 2). The Government will put up $42 million in subsidies and for "defense features" such as double engine rooms to cut down the danger from torpedoes. The U.S. Lines will put up $28 million. With its 33-knot speed, the 2,000-passenger air-conditioned ship, to be launched in 1952, will have a good chance of breaking the transatlantic speed record...
...biggest objection to "Command Decision" as a film is the way it handles war fought on the executive level. The screen is filled with maps, charts, tables of plane losses, and movies-within-movies of the latest German jet-fighters. The Generals push their map-pins and calculate their losses with a pleasant detachment from reality, unfortunately near the conventional idea of all military command. This was not true of the play; it is not characteristic of all films. "Paisan," which showed just how good war movies could be, had a command decision too, in an episode involved with guerrilla...