Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soviet officialdom decided to make it plain that good upright Communist bipeds would not be caught cavorting about on all fours. In Izvestia, Party Polemicist Boris Lavrenev reported that a look at Antipin's family tree revealed a wretched bourgeois background. The professor had fought the Red army as a member of Admiral Kolchak's White Guard in 1919. Obviously, Lavrenev concluded, Antipin was nothing but "a common adventurer, slavishly addicted to idiotic . . . ravings...
There were hopeful signs. Television seemed to have stirred a new appetite for small variety acts. For two years RKO had put on a sort of vaudeville once a week in 18 of its New York houses; in recent months, the one-night stands had caught on heavily with moviegoers...
...went on sale on newsstands in eight cities from Philadelphia to Tacoma-but not in Manhattan, where Editor & Publisher Cowles had dreamed it up. With Look's staff "and of course Fleur" (Mrs. Cowles), he had knocked the first issue together in four months. If the first issues caught on, Quick would probably go on a national distribution basis next month, get its own staff. Without ads, Cowles figured the new magazine would need 300,000 readers to break even. The trick for Quick was to find that number of busy people who would be satisfied to get their...
This leaves Maureen free for rapture No. 2, a poor young lawyer (Dana Andrews without a beard) who is also a drunkard. Not to be caught napping a second time, Maureen sobers him up, supplies him with bed & board, and helps him to start a puppet theater in the mews. After a stretch of successful puppeteering, the couple's happiness is threatened by the return of Dana's wife from the U.S. But everything is straightened out in time for a jolly family reunion with Maureen's respectable parents down in Surrey...
...novel include: the amiable madam of a New York call-house, two warm-hearted call-house girls, a nuclear physicist whose atomic know-how is equaled only by his abysmal no-know-how where dames are concerned, a woman who has run away from her botanist husband because she caught him kissing another man in the conservatory, and a Wylie version of Jesus Christ, his name abbreviated to Chris, who shows up in a persistent but inconclusive dream about a B-29 on an A-bomb run. Most of the action takes place in a New York hotel...