Word: clem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began when Van Johnson came to town. Val, a copy girl being tried as a picture-caption writer, persuaded an elderly friend to pretend to be a Johnson fan. Then Val talked City Editor Clem Lane into doing a story on "Van's oldest admirer...
There was no laughter in either Prime Minister Clement Attlee or Winston Churchill as they resumed the India debate next day. Clem Attlee had to admit that administration in India had broken down to the point where Britain was no longer effective. Gloomily he warned that India was "a volcano of hidden fires," and "even as we are speaking tonight there are serious communal disturbances" (see below). But he argued against any "plea for delay . . . and inaction...
Wake Up and Dream (20th Century-Fox) is pretty, mildly relaxing and aggressively whimsical. Adapted from a sweet little Robert Nathan novel (The Enchanted Voyage), it is an almost overpoweringly sweet little movie. It shows how a peculiar old man (Clem Bevans) and a pair of young lovers (John Payne and June Haver) put themselves to enormous trouble to humor a daydreaming child (Connie Marshall...
...Ministers. John Strachey (Food) had been down with flu. Sir Stafford Cripps (Trade) had been out with a chill. Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was nursing his high blood pressure. At a cocktail party a friend told him that he looked well. Said Bevin: "I feel worse than I look." Clem Attlee, an early riser, toiled to the Churchillian hour of 2:30 a.m. to handle the extra work...
Clementine, who came to Manhattan (N.Y.) from a farm near Manhattan (Kans.), still gets up at 5 a.m. to do her chores. For offbeat stories she roams the Fulton Street market, "reviews" restaurants once a week for New Yorkers, rarely gives them a bum steer. Says Clem: "I hate to eat in restaurants...