Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Bentley calmly said that Currie was one of those who had given her information, although she never had direct contact with him, and thought that he was not a Communist. She said Currie and one George Silverman, a former Government employee, were "very good friends-they went to Harvard together." Silverman, she said, reported Currie's information to Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, who worked at the Board of Economic Warfare and was the Communist she saw most frequently in Washington...
...Names Please. "We'll find out what's there or I'll know the reason why," stormed Glen Cove's mayor when Stanco made his report. "We'll take it up with the United Nations direct." Glen Cove's people said nothing. "They come," a candy-store proprietor told a reporter of his Russian customers, "they buy, and they go. But don't use my name or my address. With the world situation the way it is, you never can tell...
Radioisotopes have already revolutionized many kinds of research, particularly biology, and are beginning to affect industry. They are chiefly used as "tracers" to mark with exquisite sensitivity the motions or chemical transformations of a substance by "tagging" it with radioactivity. Direct uses are increasing, such as modifying chemical reactions by the radiation from isotopes...
...grandiose. Technicolor is supplying him with 800,000 feet of negative, 19 specially adapted cameras, 60 specially trained cameramen and technicians. He will dress his whole team in green trousers and white blazers, and provide motorized scooters to zip them about the grounds at Wembley. Knight himself will direct the whole business from a control booth just below the royal box-dangling his crews at the ends of eight miles of telephone line. This special telephone exchange, will be officially known as "Corinthian," already unofficially shortened to Cor-Blimey...
Hunky. Over a magnum of champagne, M-G-Magnate Louis B. Mayer signed up Dore Schary, thus became Hollywood's first to profit from Howard Hughes's shake-up at RKO (TIME, July 19). As executive producer and Mayer's No. 1 man, Schary will direct production of all M-G-M pictures, draw a salary of about $5,000 a week. Punned an M-G-Mster: "Now everything will be hunky Dore...