Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor of New York. Emerging from a White House conference, tall Jim. Mead smiled his toothy smile, happily quoted the President: "I am a voter in New York State, but I am not a delegate to the convention. If I were a delegate to the convention, I would cast my vote for Jim Mead...
...cigars to celebrate the birth of a little Rosar-Catcher Rosar found that a potential policeman's lot was not a happy one. Manager McCarthy had not only fined him $250 for jumping the club but had hired rollicking Rollie Hemsley to take his place. Hemsley, recently cast off by the Cincinnati Reds for his dismal record of 13 hits in 115 times at bat this season, seemed an unlikely squat-in for Bill Dickey. But on his first day with the Yankees, catching all innings of a doubleheader on the hottest day of the year, Hemsley got five...
...cast, in which Orson Welles does not appear, are all good actors with difficult roles to perform. Dolores Costello and Tim Holt, as her spoiled son, present the central conflict of the plot. The son, whose character is strikingly like that of Citizen Kane, lacks the one saving grace of the Ambersons--their charm. His narrow-mindedness and conceit contrast sharply with the polish and warmth of his mother. Yet his stronger traits triumph over her more delicate virtues, destroy her life, and dissipate the family fortune. Once again the main role is that of an unpleasant, cruel man like...
Except for a brief Christmas cable the last news received was a letter of November 1, in which Derby said "The die is cast--there is now nothing left for us but a job to be done . . . so important that it transcends . . . if necessary even life itself...
...blond Burl Ives was already a very busy soldier. In nine shows each week he mugged, sang, cavorted in the smash hit This Is The Army (TIME, July 13). Each morning he drilled with the rest of the cast on a vacant lot in Manhattan. Two mornings a week (Sundays 8:45 a.m., Thursdays 9:30 a.m. E.W.T.) his strumming guitar and his warm tenor voice plugged the Army show over CBS. He took the daily Jive stint happily in stride...