Word: busyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Certainly Not." Then all ears were cocked for Tom Dewey. Last week he was busy entertaining 19 of the 28-man New York G.O.P. delegation to Congress, and taking an active part in the campaign to make Indiana's Charles Halleck the House Majority Leader. Was he ready to...
In the interior, life goes on as if the Dutch would never come again. Recently a highly respected Dutch educator, P. J. Koets, shocked Holland with a realistic report of stability and progress in the nationalist area. Wrote Koets: "The picture in general is of a society consolidating itself, and...
David Charnay was sitting in a midtown Manhattan spot last week, tending to his business (interviewing a Broadway character for the New York Daily News) when a friend phoned with a hot tip. There'd been a brawl over at La Conga and-guess who-Peggy Hopkins Joyce was...
To settle the stock-ownership dispute, a long legal fight was in prospect. Meanwhile, Mary and Charlie were busy lining up more pictures for U.A. with independent producers. Mary, in a new company formed with Lester Cowan (G.I. Joe), planned to produce four pictures of her own next year. She...
Last week Grierson was in Paris speaking for British culture at UNESCO meetings. He was also organizing a new U.S.British-Canadian company called The World Today, Inc., which plans to make 26 "international" fact films a year. Without much prospect of getting any fresh movie criticism out of such a...