Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March n issue of your estimable publication appears a brief reference to the death of Mr. Leon Cortes Castro, in which it is stated that this illustrious ex-President of my country was a man of fascist tendencies. Nothing could be farther from the truth...
Zita Heinmuller, 19, appeared to be the next glamor girl to be trumpeted to literary fame for a fee. Brass-lunged Trumpeter Russell Birdwell (who puffed Nancy Bruff's The Manatee into a brief bestseller) worked on beauteous Zita bright & early: before Zita started her book. The new authoress, daughter of the president of the Longines-Wittnauer Watch Co., Inc. ("the world's most honored watch"), dashed off an outline, flew off to Havana to begin padding it out. Declared Birdwell: she would have the help of "research workers" who were beautiful models. Book's title: Park...
...night, while rereading Benjamin Franklin's autobiographical writings, he found an assistant for his experiment. Next day Government and Communist conferees were handed a translation from English into Chinese, with a brief preface: "The following address was delivered to the Convention which produced the Constitution of the U.S. It was given by Benjamin Franklin, then in his 82nd year." The Chinese, who had been grumbling over the unity formula just worked out by their own constitutional convention, the Political Consultation Conference, read what Franklin...
...glossary of Hollywood, "talent" is one of the synonyms for bosom. Accordingly, Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell, 24, has been, as every fan-magazine reader knows, Hollywood's most talented actress. But, except for a brief (1943) showing in San Francisco, she has never been seen on the screen...
...story is a familiar one: the fight of two escaped P.O.W.'s through German-occupied Italy into Switzerland. Around this simple idea author Richard Schweizer has woven a brilliant series of incidents whose episodic qualities and to rather than detract from the film's intensity. Even the brief appearances of such figures as a Catholic priest or peasant girl are so carefully etched that they contain wealth enough for an entire movie...