Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blood and thunder saga o the career of Billy the Kid, who "in the brief span of twenty-one years sent twenty-one men to untimely graves," the musical manages to keep a plot together while the audience witnesses at least fifteen of the murders in addition to innumerable songs and dances. The music is good, though nothing for the Hit Parade. The cast and scenes are colorfully symbolic of New Mexico, the locale of the story...
Reading his brief speech from a little leather folder, Harry Truman pledged his administration "to carry forward the underlying principles and policies, foreign and domestic, of Franklin D. Roosevelt." The biggest ovation was for Eleanor Roosevelt when she turned over the Big House, where Roosevelts had lived for some 80 years, to the people of the U.S. as a national shrine...
...frisky Washington Senators, who have burnt up the spring-exhibition circuit with 21 wins and ten defeats, could be kept out of the American League first division. Almost sure shots for the second-division underworld were the White Sox, the Browns (whose brief period of glory-the pennant in 1944 -was definitely over) and Connie Mack's Athletics...
...years: "to goad public opinion into being more vigilant and hospitable." When Editor Croly died in 1930, his paper went from bluestocking to parlor pink, and his galaxy of talent flew apart. Often, under Bruce Bliven, the NR was peas-in-a-pod with the Nation and, for a brief period (1935), it adhered to a Marxist line.* By the time Willard Straight's son joined the staff, Croly's shadow on the magazine had faded to a faint blur...
...title for Mr. Sheean's mixture as before: part tract, part treatise, part I-was-right-there testimony. The ingredients are not up to prewar quality. Journalist-Lecturer Sheean (he returned to civilian life late in 1944) opens with a long, rambling, Shesanesque introduction and concludes with a brief tailpiece in which he discusses world history from Versailles to San Francisco, poses the somber question of whether we are in for another war. His half-hopeful, half-baffled, wholly unstartling conclusion: no, if the U.S. and Russia can agree. He thinks they may, and should: it ought...