Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seldom find reason to question TIME'S accuracy, but I would like to mention that I was highly incensed by the Cinema editor's wanton attack upon my friend Donald Duck's personality (The Three Caballeros, Feb. 19). The editor's erroneous reference to Donald as a "combination of loud little boy and loud little duck" is evidence that he does not realize how faithfully Donald portrays the inescapable fact that life at best is usually a series of frustrations for the average guy. If this character of yours knew Donald as I, and countless others...
...TIME'S Cinema editor feels that an animated duck is liable to be more frustrated than ever if he insists on pursuing an animate lady friend...
...Prime Minister Winston Churchill's son-in-law, Minister of Works Duncan Sandys, announced that V-1 was licked. Before they stopped coming on March 27, 1,050 rockets had killed 2,754 people, seriously injured 6,523, damaged an untold number of buildings (including a million-dollar cinema at Marble Arch). Last week Churchill was asked in Parliament if he had an announcement to make about V2. Mindful of Duncan Sandys' unfortunate experience, he answered: "They have ceased." Then he sat down...
...servicemen and women stationed in the U.S. Last week the 15th such group left Princeton's campus after a three-day closeup of U.S. opinion, culture, labor, politics, hospitality. The general student reaction: the U.S. is easier to understand and much more likable than its press, radio and cinema have led foreigners to believe...
...name does not even appear in Who's Who. He keeps oak-paneled, antique-furnished offices in New York, Chicago, Hollywood, Cleveland, Dallas, San Francisco, London. As president of the Music Corp. of America, he is absolute monarch over the careers of scores of celebrated radio and cinema stars. Together with the A.F. of M.'s James ("Little Caesar") Petrillo and Music Publisher Jack Robbins, he is "the supreme court of popular music." He is a small, greying man, 49, with a soft voice and meticulous manners. His name: Jules Caesar Stein...