Word: deepful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although he was neck-deep in a detailed reporting job for TIME'S forthcoming cover story on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Dec. 6), Gruin made arrangements to evacuate his family from Shanghai (they are now on their way back to the U.S.). After a trip to Britain's Hong Kong to file some copy and get some rest, Doyle cabled: "Since my wife and I came to China unencumbered with household goods, we can watch with a relaxed eye the pell-mell evacuation of Shanghai by those with loads of furniture and the ever present tung...
...thin chain of islands picketing the vast Red-dominated land mass of Asia, Douglas MacArthur stood overwhelmingly outgunned, outmanned, and out-planed by actual and potential Soviet power. In every category of military strength (except the atomic bomb), the Soviet Union, stretching from the Bering Strait to Vladivostok and deep inland, held at least a ten-to-one superiority. Reported Douglas MacArthur: the time to prepare is now. He asked immediately for six divisions, hundreds of aircraft and increased naval forces...
...huge $22 million opera house that Chicagoans call "Insull's Folly," his tiny orchestra (he brought 37 musicians with him, added 25 Chicagoans) had to saw and blow hard to be heard; and his singers, fearful of losing themselves-and their voices - in the 75-ft.-deep stage, hovered close to the footlights. When it was over, some veteran operagoers who remembered Mary Garden's Salome thought that Brenda Lewis' striptease with the seven veils was a bit corny. But one listener, as taken with Brenda's figure as with her singing, reported: "Salome...
...cult of Nicholson-worshippers, which has been growing in England in recent years, insists on regarding his art as the work of a brilliant mathematician or a deep metaphysical thinker. Nicholson himself takes a simpler view. "People are too sophisticated about art," he told a correspondent last week. "They look for hidden meanings. The fact is my six children laugh at my knowledge of mathematics and I know nothing at all about metaphysics. A painter should paint, not theorize. Of course," he added with a twinkle, "it's extremely interesting when a really intelligent man comes along and explains...
...Deep Cut. In Columbus, Ohio, when a married couple disagreed over the correct way to cut cards, they asked a bridge expert's advice; when they consulted a lawyer about the expert's bill for $25, they got another bill...