Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This plea from a harassed mother, the wife of one of our Paris Bureau correspondents, is old stuff to J. David Buckner, prime mover of TIME-LIFE International's Personal Shopping Service. During the war our foreign correspondents were pretty much on their own (thanks to outfits like U.S. Army Exchange Service) and needed few supplies from home. The postwar exodus of their wives & children (and of the wives & children of our other overseas personnel as well) to join them abroad changed all that. They needed all sorts of goods & services, most of which were in short supply throughout...
Subluxation Adjustment. Chiropractic, founded by an Iowa storekeeper named Daniel David Palmer, has flourished for 52 years in spite of considerable hell (from the A.M.A.) & high water. It now has some 30,000 U.S. practitioners, is recognized in 44 of the 48 states. (It is illegal, but is practiced nonetheless, in New York, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Louisiana...
Duel in the Sun (David O. Selznick; Vanguard) is a knowing blend of oats and aphrodisiac. It is the costliest, the most lushly Technicolored, the most lavishly cast, the loudest ballyhooed, and the sexiest horse opera ever made...
...Producer David O. Selznick, who is credited with writing the screenplay himself (from a Niven Busch novel), spent an unprecedented amount of money on this picture (reported to be $6 million, plus $2 million for promotion). By giving moviegoers a sort of super-sumptuous scrapbook of all the titillating, sure-fire elements that experience has convinced him they want, he figured to earn his millions back-plus a sizable profit. Box-office returns in Los Angeles, where Duel has been showing simultaneously in two theaters for the last couple of months (and is reportedly outgrossing Gone With the Wind...
After six weeks of acrimonious hearings (TIME, Feb. 10 et seq.), the Senate's Atomic Energy Committee voted this week, 8-to-1, for confirmation of David E. Lilienthal as chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Ohio's John Bricker was the sole dissenter...