Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game started well enough. The first period saw one goal for each team. After two minutes in the second quarter, the varsity was ahead, 3 to 1, but this was the high point. Williams pulled ahead in the third period, and except for a brief surge in the final period when Estin's last goal brought Harvard within one point and gave the crowd momentary hopes of a comeback, had the game in hand...
...dingy apartments of Harlem. The photography is superb; it not only portrays the sordidness of the slums, but also sets the mood at all times with varying patterns of light and dark. As a result, there is no need for the incessant narrative that typifies most documentaries; comments are brief and quite adequate. Dialogue is also cut to an absolute minimum, and it is a tribute to the acting and directing that so many ideas are carried across to the audience without the use of words...
Teen-age Tester. Attractive new publisher Thompson has had to learn plenty of other new jobs in her time. Except for a brief stint in advertising, she has been in the magazine business ever since 1930, when she started with Conde Nast as a $30-a-week assistant in Vogue's promotion department. Before long she was editing both the Vogue Pattern Book and a cheaper one which the company had decided to start. It was such a hit that she sold Conde Nast the idea of a fashion magazine aimed at a cheaper audience than Vogue...
...lead. Milton's stage response to her laughter has become standard: "Thank you, mother," and that is usually good for a laugh, too. Today, a vigorous woman of 71, Mom Berle took a bow on last week's TV show and did one of her specialties-a brief straight...
...Southerners Club was approved after a brief discussion in which Council members ascertained that there was no discrimination clause in the group's charter...