Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a motoring trip through Spain and a brief stopover in Hollywood, Rita and Aly flew down to Mexico City. For two days the couple remained barricaded in a suite in the Hotel Reforma. From Mexico the lovers flew to Cuba, attempting the arch pretense that they were barely acquainted. To reporters' questions, Swiss-educated Aly replied: "Look here, old boy, I'd like to answer your questions, but how can I when they are so embarrassing...
...often no females show up, though the males dance and hum their best. This has led to another theory that swarming is merely a device to brief the males and encourage them. After the dance is over, presumably, the males sally forth, full of enterprise, to hunt for mates...
Busy Editor Gardner Cowles of Look (circ. 2,912,689) thought that U.S. readers were getting "busier & busier" all the time. What they needed in the way of a weekly news report, he decided, was something brief and handy to snatch up in their spare moments "on the bus or in the beauty parlor." Last week "Mike" Cowles gave them a new, 64-page magazine of "news, pictures [19 pages] and predictions" no bigger than a man's hand. Name: Quick. Price...
Married. Ann Todd, 39, high-strung blonde British cinemactress (The Seventh Veil, One Woman's Story"); and David Lean, 41, high-strung British cinema director (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, One Woman's Story*); each for the third time; in London...
...plot was based on an H. G. Wells novel, The Passionate Friends. The screenplay was written by a topnotch storyteller, Eric Ambler (Journey into Fear, A Coffin for Dimitrios). The film was put together by one of the best directors on either side of the Atlantic, David Lean (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations...