Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where's the Meeting Ground? Adept at winding his way through the jungle of international trade laws, Thomas wanted to arrive at a common meeting ground for U.S. free enterprise and cartels. He discovered little to comfort free traders. His survey found no hope that the U.S., despite its mighty economic power, could force an agreement from other nations to end cartel-dealing in the postwar trade world. Instead it concluded that the cartelization of European industry, compulsory in some countries in prewar days, would not be changed by the peace. In fact, there may be even greater cartelization...
Unhappy Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr. could find scant comfort last week in these lines from the Song of Solomon, source of the title of his standing-room-only hit, The Voice of the Turtle. In Manhattan and Chicago, the Voice's two companies were putting up a losing fight against winter, rain, snow and sniffles. First, Star Betty Field (who replaced Margaret Sullavan in the Manhattan cast last month) came down with flu. Hollywood's Florence Rice took her place. Then Actress Rice began to sniffle. Producer de Liagre raided his Chicago company, had Understudy Nancy Holland...
...week's end, after looking eagerly at things they could not buy, and looking away from things they could not bear, the buyers were quietly desperate. But they may have drawn some comfort from the tailored calm of the attending fashion experts. Declared one woman fashion editor, who refused to be unhorsed by shortages, government, or two-ocean...
Nowhere in the vast Pacific was there more than a crumb of comfort for the Japanese. On Luzon, infantrymen and tankmen of Lieut. General Walter Krueger's Sixth Army were probing toward Manila (see below). True, the Japanese had as yet suffered only slight losses in men and materiel, because they had elected not to meet the attack head on at this stage. Thus they conserved for a later stand, perhaps in the mountains of northern Luzon, perhaps on Bataan, perhaps both. But such a stand could only delay U.S. seizure of strategic Luzon...
Last week the Metropolitan's trustees thought they had a solution. With an eye to the "comfort [and] sanity" of visitors, the Museum announced a $3-million-plus postwar plan. Taking a tip from the Louvre, which has long been divided into ten sections, the Metropolitan will reshuffle and sort itself out into five separate museums, each with an entrance of its own, plainly marked for the visitor who wants to know exactly where he is going. Tentative titles for the five new entrances: the Museum of Ancient Art, the Museum of Oriental Art, the Picture Gallery, the Museum...