Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Opposers. The Tories must take a shorter view. It is the talk of London that Winston Churchill, to all effects, is out of the Party leadership. At most, says many a knowing Tory gossip, he will manage to hang on for a brief interim, then hand it over. To whom? There's the rub. The Tory Party today is virtually in the position most Americans thought the Democratic Party was in during Franklin Roosevelt's tenure...
...several weeks the Peronistas had had the run of the street. Three or four of their newsboys, accompanied by armed bodyguards, would parade the sidewalks, hawking the Nationalist Alianza, while their escorts ripped democratic emblems off the lapels of passersby. Last week the democrats were striking back. In brief, quick-breaking scrimmages they gave at least as good as they got, bloodied many a bully-boy's nose before the ubiquitous Perón police closed...
Challenge to Hollywood (MARCH OF TIME) is a look at Britain's new film industry and a brief examination of the economic reasons why England is attempting to rival Hollywood for both British and U.S. markets. As Robert John Graham Boothby, Conservative Member of Parliament, puts it: "If I have to choose between Bogart and bacon, I am afraid that the decision must, for the time being, be in favor of bacon...
...long for the cozily lighted window that means the unrestricted freedom and comfort of home. Through that lighted window John Boynton Priestley has tossed a well-aimed literary brick. Novelist Priestley (The Good Companions; Angel Pavement) is one of British Labor's most popular literary backers. In a brief (32-page), brusque, best-selling pamphlet entitled Letter to a Returning Serviceman, Priestley beseeches ex-Tommies to beware of their heart's desire-"the charmed cozy circle" of home life...
...just beyond naked eye visibility-has followed its looping course to perihelion (closest approach to the sun) and is zooming toward the outer reaches of the solar system. This week, as the comet emerges from behind the sun, South African astronomers who are on their toes may get a brief look-probably the last look from the earth...