Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thunderstruck strikers, members of the C.I.O. Newspaper Guild, hurried outside. Sure enough, their picket line had melted away. There was no longer a Philadelphia Record for them to picket. Tired of a fight that nobody seemed able to win, impulsive, New Dealing Publisher J. David Stern had shut up shop and sold out. The buyer: conservative Robert McLean, head of the rich Evening Bulletin and president of the Associated Press...
...work in my life I'm a sucker. I'm going to lie on a beach and not even think, and just be a mollusk." It was hard for Philadelphia to believe that Stern could ever take it easy. Some guessed that he and his son, David III, publisher of the Camden papers, would take their money (around $10 million, less $5½ million in debts) and buy something else with...
...started with Alexander the Great," explained Senator Kenneth McKellar (D. Tenn.) to a surprised President Conant before a committee investigating the appointment of David E. Lillienthal as Atomic Energy Chief. The subject of discussion was atom splitting...
...David Niven has chosen an admirable vehicle for his return to the American screen after a six-year absence, and he does full well by his opportunities as the flier on borrowed time. Kim Hunter, a newcomer, is equally well cast as the WAC. Her fresh and youthful appearance, unretouched by Max Factor, could serve as an object lesson in natural casting for American producers. Marins Goring, Roger Livesey, and Raymond Massey are other highlights of a cast entirely above reproach. Hollywood was well advised to exclude foreign productions from the Academy Award competition; if "Stairway to Heaven...
Stairway to 'Heaven. An imaginative, pretty and pretentious British-made fantasy with David Niven, Raymond Massey and Roger Livesey (TIME...