Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novelist Sinclair Lewis was off for Europe as "guide for a party of one": his brother, Dr. C. B. Lewis of St. Cloud, Minn., taking his first vacation in 46 years...
Died. Charles Round Low Cloud, 76, Indian columnist since 1919 for the weekly Black River Falls Banner-Journal (circ. 5,503), who "thought in Winnebago and wrote in English" and whose punctuation-less comments* on current events were reprinted by many a daily U.S. newspaper; in Back River Falls...
...first, in Hollywood's golden sky, it looked like a cloud no bigger than a publicity man's handout. But by last week it was a fat thunderhead of pressagentry that threatened to soak the U.S. right down to its grass roots. Paramount called it a "motion picture merchandising method...which sets a completely new standard in harnessing opinion-influencing power to film promotion...
...picture in the cloud, Samson and Delilah with Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr, will not be released until January, but last week Producer Cecil B. DeMille's special emissary, Actor Henry Wilcoxon, had left Hollywood to turn on the downpour in 25 major cities. With him was Pressagent Richard Condon, who planned the campaign, and luggage containing 400 pounds of promotion material and special gadgets. Wilcoxon's mission: to pour it on for six groups of "public opinion leaders" in each city-women's clubs, churches and religious groups, school officials, fashion designers, manufacturers and retailers...
...republic's leftist regime. Gildo Gasperoni had been heard to say: "If the casino succeeds we will be all right. If it doesn't, then we pack our bags and go." If Gasperoni went, thought San Marinese, Maxim might also go. He might even go in a cloud of sulphur smoke...