Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...escape of Communist Kingpin Gerhart Eisler had made the U.S. Government hopping mad. Unable to lay hands on the little man who was snugly draped in the Iron Curtain, the U.S. Government last week did what it seemed to consider the next best thing: it staged a spectacular, two-day inspection of the Polish liner Batory, aboard which Eisler had stowed away. The announced purpose was to find out who had helped...
...black days of Teapot Dome had such grave charges and innuendoes been sounded by a responsible member of the U.S. Congress. Yet newsmen everywhere handled the charges gingerly. They were aware of the degeneration of the interservice squabbles into an eye-gouging finish fight. In the Pentagon, the security curtain clanked down abruptly. Worried staff officers warned inquiring newsmen not even to discuss the matter over the telephone, for fear of wiretapping. A stream of other rumors flooded through Washington...
...issue of a slick-paper, LIFEsize, Czech-language picture magazine lay stacked in neat piles. This month, when the U.S. State Department's Amerika hits newsstands and mailboxes in Communist-controlled Czechoslovakia, traditionally pro-American Czechs will get their first real glimpse of the U.S. since the Iron Curtain fell 15 months...
Right Role. In the genteel bedlam of Manhattan's Cafe Society (six nights a week, after the curtain rings down on South Pacific), she was making her own solo hit. Slick-haired, flat-faced Juanita just hauled off from the microphone, braced her 61 inches and 165 pounds, and let the customers have it in a full, strong voice that ranged easily from deep purple to high yellow. She moaned Am I Blue and her own Lament over Love, and usually she gave them Bali Ha'i and Happy Talk, her South Pacific hits. Offstage, she had nothing...
...Wounds of a Nation. This war's most pitiful victims are Greece's people. While the rest of Europe, on either side of the Iron Curtain, has been allowed years of respite and reconstruction, the Greeks have known only more killing, have been touched only by tragedy. Last week from Athens, TIME Correspondent Mary Barber cabled...