Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After lavishing praise on everybody, coach Mikkola made it clear that he was a bit chagrined over the official decision on Trimble's Nonagonal record-breaking toss of 205 feet, 1 inch. "Actually," claimed the Harvard mentor, "it was a cross wind, not a following wind, and at any rate, there should have been wind meters available...
...painting," Artist Sterne believes his best work lies ahead. He confesses he cannot see nature as art whenever he chooses: "I wish I could, but it just happens at moments. I try to catch those moments in my painting, as fast as I can. The old masters built paintings bit by bit, like houses. When they were finished building they knew it. Now I say the thing is finished when you finish what you have to say. Painting can be like building a campfire on a rainy day. Very difficult; the wood is sodden and you are down on your...
...Angeles, the Rev. W. O. H. Garman, secretary of the strictly Fundamentalist American Council of Christian Churches, fired another short round of bird shot in his little organization's long standing feud with the mighty Federal Council of Churches.* Angry Parson Garman did not approve one bit of the Federal Council's national Conference on the Church and Economic Life, held last February at Pittsburgh (TIME, March 3). Cried...
...also earned a tidy sum and an abiding reputation as playwright and director for Marcus Cook Connelly. He has never risen to such heights since-he has spent his time writing or directing a couple of minor successes and a couple of major turkeys, acting a bit, devising Hollywood dialogue and "heading too many committees...
Does a nation subconsciously reveal itself through the movies it turns out? An expert who thinks so, and has written a book to prove his point, is German-born Dr. Siegfried Kracauer, who apparently knows a good bit about both psychology and German movies. As sociology, Dr. Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler (Princeton University Press; $5) depends pretty heavily on historical hindsight. As movie lore, it may fascinate cinemagoers who know little about German films except that they gave the world Marlene Dietrich, Peter Lorre, Emil Jannings and Director Fritz Lang...