Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Low, TIME Inc.'s Eastern European Correspondent, the last three and a half years of reporting the news from both sides of the Balkans' gradually lowering Iron Curtain has been an excursion in incongruity. The Curtain is securely fastened now-except for Communist and fellow-traveling foreign journalists and Low has returned to the U.S. for a breather...
...from the security police who tail you, the knowledge that your telephone is tapped, and the interesting things the Communist newspapers write about you" (one described Low as "the Ronald Colman-type champion of American imperialism"). As a final bit of intelligence extracted from his last trip behind the Curtain, Low reports that the hottest black market item now is playing cards. None have been manufactured there since before the war, and there are no Communist allocations for reviving the industry. Low's deck of cards was virtually snatched from him by a waiter in a Budapest cafe...
Richiardi's tricky illusion act ruined a curtain in The Bronx's remarkable Puerto Rico Theater. It also cost the management dry-cleaning bills for the "blood"-stained clothes of some 20 customers. But it helped boost the week's receipts to $40,000-more than any show but Kiss Me, Kate and As the Girls Go grossed on Broadway last week. The Bronx's big-money playhouse is a magnet for one of New York's lowest-income groups-the growing city-within-a-city of 230,000 Puerto Ricans...
Four stay-at-home Russian composers -Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian and Nicolas Miaskovsky-also had a bad day in court last week. They had demanded an injunction against 20th Century-Fox for using snatches of their music in The Iron Curtain (exposing the Soviet spy ring in Canada). Said the four: using their music that way might give somebody the idea they were disloyal to their country. A lower court had already refused the injunction. Last week, the New York Supreme Court's Appellate Division turned it down...
...smiled to himself as he adjusted the shower curtain and tested the water with his elbow. This was Thesis Day. He had noticed the red circle on his calendar as he slipped from his bunk that morning, and there was something expectant in the blue sky outside the window. Or perhaps he was expectant. He forced himself under the cold water to ready his wits for the long day ahead. He always thought better with his pores closed...