Word: cues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taking up the cue, The Bronx Zoo opened an exhibition of animal paintings by Joel Stolper, who for the past 15 years has been peering behind the bars of cages, writing and illustrating books on giraffes and other animals. Ex-Prize Fighter Stolper, who fought all over the U. S. as a lightweight under the alias Joe Stone, had also been converted to animal painting through his disgust for human violence. Said he : "I looked around the dressing room at the other boxers and for the first time I really saw their broken noses and cauliflower ears, and noticed...
...epic of national defense. Announced by the War Department was a $200,000 allotment for Hollywood-made training films-ten-minute shorts to educate doughboys on how to greet an officer, how to don a gas mask, how to load a howitzer, other essentials of soldiering. Picking up its cue like a trooper, the industry called out its restless, time-marking, six-month-old Motion Picture Defense Committee, headed by Paramount Vice President Y. Frank Freeman...
Last week the National Tuberculosis Association took a cue from Walt Disney, released the first animated cartoon on public health. The picture, which combines photographs with drawings, is called "Goodbye, Mr. Germ." It tells the adventures of "Tee Bee," who swims around from lung to lung, raising an enormous family, and drilling through lung-pipes. The germ, who wears a top hat and cackles like The Shadow, finally gets trapped in a sanatorium. Message: watch out for lingering coughs, get tuberculin tests and X-rays...
...Pittmans of North Carolina, the Buckners of Kentucky. It was a magazine cover that made a frontiersman out of wealthy, idle, spoiled young Key Pittman-perhaps the last old frontiersman to sit in the U. S. Senate. One day in 1892 (he was 20) he was leaning on his cue in a Tuscaloosa, Ala. poolroom, when he saw on a chair a brilliantly colored hunting magazine, its cover an elk's head. He decided to go to the Olympic forests of Washington to shoot elk. Next day he left for Vicksburg, settled up with his guardian...
...tortuous course midway between appeasement and action, while the Navy itched for a go at the little yellow men in their big boats (see p. 32). As usual U. S. public opinion was slow to react, because its leaders had as yet to give it clue or cue. The State Department, in this month before election, was even charier than usual of taking a firm stand until it knew what the reaction was. But in Tokyo, where the Government not only informs but makes public opinion, there were many signs that Japan intended to force the U. S. to take...