Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breakfast time Rumania surged with a brief boundless relief. In the streets people of all classes, rich and poor, in uniforms, business suits and peasant costumes, fraternized, openly rejoicing. They felt as if something big had been accomplished. They rejoiced when Red Dog begged the new King's mother, Princess Helen (divorced and in exile), to return from Dresden. Actually the situation in Rumania remained close to political and strategic chaos...
...play Jane Peyton, Director Lloyd chose Newcomer Martha Scott, whose only previous movie assignment was the naïve New England schoolgirl in Our Town. The daughter of a Gee's Creek. Mo. electrical engineer, Martha's brief movie record belies her acting experience, which began in Kansas City at the age of "about twelve or so" when she took up public speaking and dramatics to overcome an inferiority complex. She went to the University of Michigan to study teaching, received...
...very convincing when he argues that Kipling's later years were his best, or that Kipling is altogether the great writer-or quite the sort of great writer-Mr. Shanks tries to make him out. Kipling's greatest legacy to letters Mr. Shanks dismisses in a brief paragraph: ". . . the enormous influence which he has exercised on the practice of journalism in all English-speaking countries." But that, as Kipling would say, is another story...
...Wendell Willkie portrait was also commissioned by the Tribune, for the usual $500. Mr. Doctoroff will sell the rights, if the Republicans wish them, for the usual $1,500. During the brief sittings, Artist Doctoroff went all-out for Candi date Willkie, resolved to vote for him al though he has never voted at all before. Last week he even let out a Willkie slogan, which impressionable Republicans may like: "He seems to put his arms around you with his eyes...
...strong sentiment for non-intervention existed among the undergraduates last fall was established by the fact that the American Independence League, an organization dedicated to peace but having no specific aims except "keeping out of war" signed up 600 members in three or four days. Except for one brief outburst six months later, the A. I. L. disappeared as quickly as it came...