Word: cliffords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next to modern escapist drama, voters signified a desire for modern tragedy, as Eugene O'Nell placed third in the playwright preferences of the interviewees. Behind O'Nell followed Noel C. Coward, Henrick Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Maxwell Anderson, Clifford Odets, Anton Chekov, and Thornton Wilder. stated, "There was an almost intense monotony of response, which may perhaps be indicative of the stereotyped taste pattern of American audiences in general, and more particularly a definite escapist sentiment...
...officials of the 40-member group include William A. Rusher 1L, chairman, and Daniel M. Pierce '49 and Clifford R. Hope, Jr. '47, vice-chairmen. Rusher, in addition to organizational duties, will preside at the monthly forums...
Hard-working Special Counsel Clark Clifford had stuck to his desk over the holidays, hammering together the President's annual message on the state of the Union. But it needed a final polishing before it could be taken up to the Hill on Jan. 6. And the President also had a budget message to deliver on the 8th, his recommendations to accompany the Economic Council's report (TIME, Dec. 30) to be given two days later...
Holiday Business. In Detroit, 225-pound union President Herbert Thompson, with an eye to rising food costs, set forth the new wage demands of the Santa Claus Union (C.I.O.), explained: "They like us chubby, and we have to eat to stay this way." In Richmond, Ind., Santa Claus Clifford Oldham, after listening to two-year-old Patty Pike's Christmas wishes, handed her an apple, got it right back. Said Patty: "Peel it." In Newark, Santa Claus Herman Quaas was haled into court. The charge: refusal to take the city's health test for all Santa Clauses...
After Lincoln, F.D.R. The U.S. Civil War, in contrast, seemed remote, almost mythical, virtually genteel. But Clifford Dowdey's Experiment in Rebellion, 'Roy Meredith's Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man, Burton J. Hendrick's Lincoln's War Cabinet and a corporal's guard of books dealing with Lincoln himself testified to the apparently fathomless curiosity of the U.S. reader in the events...