Word: chil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was class bias in the Dalton budget. Purchase taxes on pots, crockery, blankets, mattresses were reduced or removed, but not on cars or furs. Income-tax rates for a married man with two chil dren and earning $1,200 a year went down from 3% to nothing; for a man in similar circumstances earning $4,000 a year, from 30% to 24%; for the man earning $10,000 a year, only from...
...vanishing longhorns, as he has in the university library. "Somehow ' or other," he once said, "I have been able to get to the heart of common people and rob them of their stories." Professor Dobie's many books on S. Southwest (Coronado's Chil dren, The Longhorns - TIME, March 17, 1941) glow with the lyric magic of the region's folk tales. His mellow, witty impressions of England, gathered in a year (1943-44) as professor of American history at Cambridge, are as vividly colored: he met and "robbed" many an English man in college commons...
...Unseen (Paramount) has the makings of a good scare picture: an in quisitive governess (Gail Russell); a suspiciously unpleasant widower (Joel McCrea); a medical neighbor with a voice like sloe gin (Herbert Marshall); a brutal and mysterious murder; two edgy chil dren (Nona Griffith and Richard Lyon) in sadistic league about some grim secret; a sour-eyed furnace-fixer (Mikhail Rasumny) ; and a rumor of wandering lights in the boarded-up mansion next door...
...Valley of Decision (MGM), Marcia Davenport's highly colored best seller about steel and several generations of steelmen and their women and chil dren, would have been no easy job to adapt for the screen, at best. In choosing too often the better part of valor, MGM has permitted too little of the imaginable best to survive. It was probably discreet to reduce Mrs. Davenport's 790-page chronicle to a few years and a few major episodes, but they move with little essential vitality, at a wedding-march pace...
...laughter of others irritate them. Someone asks a little girl why she is so silent. She answers: "Why do you smile?" From London last week came such reports of what two years of starvation, cold and horror had done to the children of Nazi-besieged Leningrad. To some chil dren it had caused mental damage so severe that "Soviet authorities feared it would be permanent." Some children cry at the slightest disappointment - for example, when they can not button their coats. Others cry when they see trinkets such as earrings, because they are reminded of their parents who wore such...