Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writers could always get in touch with him. Its walls are lined with yards of scientific books and papers, and its closets are packed less with clothes than with new products and gadgets-fabrics made from glass, steaks and biscuits made from yeast, three-dimensional photographs in full color, a portable cosmic ray detector, portraits painted in fluorescent paints that can be seen only in the dark. (One of his prized possessions is a Krazy Kat cartoon -"Why is somebody always trying to smash the poor I'll adam...
From the Iowa, anchored in Sagami Bay, TIME Correspondent John Walker radioed: "Off our port beam we saw the vast bulk of the holy mountain, Fuji, almost concealed in a wreath of clouds which could have been a mourning robe of traditional Japanese white - the color of death." The advance guard of airborne invaders landed at Atsugi; their transports disgorged aviation engineers, jeeps, gasoline, rations, radios, to prepare for the grand entry of the 11th Airborne Division and of MacArthur himself. Between Atsugi and the fleet was the Emperor's seaside palace at Hayama, destined to be MacArthur...
Since, by Government order, no paper which published with German permission could reopen, only five of Paris' prewar dailies are still in business. Their successors - there were twelve on Liberation Day, 31 now - are skimpy, cautious, color less. Some (the best: Combat, Franc-Tireur, Resistance) came up from the underground, and are mainly leftist and critical of De Gaulle. Newer dailies are mostly rightist, 100% pro-De Gaulle...
Because voices know no color line, Manhattan's independent WNEW last week signed an all-Negro company to do a 13-week series of radio dramas, starting Sept. 16. WNEW said that it hired the group because it was good, not because it was Negro. One proof that the company, the American Negro (repertory) Theater, is indeed able: its Anna Lucasta is now in its second year on Broadway...
...work, likeable or not. When she finally got into the part she fell in love with it. She feel so hard that the Director Siodmak, whose worries about Hayes Office approval must have been a little like a man wondering how Queen Victoria would take to an off color joke, had to tone down her performance. But despite all precautions, Miss Fitzgerald's salvation from limbo gleams handsomely through the Hays...