Word: calls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question of a telephone call," said the bicycle man blandly. "I had thought we might need a lawyer and hoped that if someone heard the bell ringing he would call a lawyer...
...Cover) In the center of Mexico City squats a vast, magnificently ugly edifice of white marble, imported block by block from Italy. Officially it is the Palace of Fine Arts, but mexicanos call it the elefante blanco and point out, with mingled pride and disdain, that the ponderous thing is slowly sinking, of its own weight, into the city's soft subsoil...
...been having a continuous bellyache in the process. But inside the museum's marble halls last week, work men were uncrating the paintings of one Mexican who took Europe in his stride and came home to en rich his country with great art that it could call its own. His name: Diego Rivera. The crates in the Palace of Fine Arts held 500 pic tures ranging from the academic studies and cubist experiments of Rivera's student days to the power fully realistic productions of his maturity, assembled for a retro spective show opening...
...Bethlehem Steel." But the Reds have reason to know that there is always one more trick in Rivera's trunk. When he applied for readmission to the party, in 1946, their response was a horrified no. "So I have no right," he says with elephantine humility, "to call myself a Communist...
...Detective Story, his sixth play and the first since 1943, he worked for two years, haunting a Manhattan detective squad room, the District Attorney's office, judges' chambers. For a month he was on 24-hour-call with the Homicide Squad. The research finally got so rich that Kingsley went off to the country and wrote the play without looking at his notes. But, at a rehearsal, some 60 detectives seemed pleased with the results...