Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost as much applause as the President did at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner a fortnight ago (TIME, March I) was asked last week during a radio press interview (Mutuals Meet the Press) if he would accept a Democratic nomination as Vice President. Big Jim promptly boomed the shortest, clearest, most emphatic political statment...
...Wallace," Lynd went on to say, "as a private individual who, unlike most, has constructive plans for the future." Nesin added that "we are picking the clearest figure," Newspaper treatment, said Nesin, has been unfair and biased; it is the aim of the Committee for Wallace to present his views straight-forward as they stand...
Hungry Hill (Rank; Prestige), at its clearest, appears to be a plea for the abolition of the 19th Century. Everything else about this British cinemadaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel is equally impossible. It begins in Ireland atop a large rocky lump of earth (see title) which a greedy capitalist named Brodrick is determined to excavate. A member of the lower classes prophesies that "woe" and "the end of everything green and beautiful" will betide if the hill is mined for copper. For three generations (roughly 90 minutes), flunkeys announce woe more often than dinner ("There...
Assignment: Tel-Aviv (Paul Falkenberg; United Palestine Appeal) is the clearest effort among the four to appeal to non-Jews. It is also the least effective. It is no more than a slightly humanized travelogue, in uneven color, narrated by the glossily chummy voice of Quentin (London Can Take It) Reynolds...
...Louella know first without getting Hedda hopping? Some publicity chiefs tried giving both girls the story at once. The result, neither would print it. Finally they tried doling out "scoops" on a nominal 50-50 basis (actually, Louella is given about 60%, and that is probably the clearest measure of her edge on Hedda...