Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after his first postwar leading part (as Shakespeare's penn'orth king, Richard II), Alec had London's dour critics giddily tapping their umbrellas. The Daily Herald: "This is Shakespeare done in a way that gives luster to the English theater. . . ." The Daily Telegraph: ". . . Admirable economy . . . not a touch nor a tone seems wrong." The consensus: Alec Guinness is the most versatile new actor to appear on the British stage since...
...with the case. A gleaming, mackerel-in-the-moonlight exception is Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, who called his painting of a varicose-veined slattern Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, and underlined his intricate picture of a moldering mortuary door That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (TIME...
...management of U.S. industry was filled with the comforting thought that it had done its duty. By granting pay raises which labor unions felt they could accept, management had shown a degree of economic statesmanship. But had it shown enough...
...that extent, the boosts would lessen the effects of high prices and the dangers of a slump. But the benefiting unionists were only a small minority of consumers. The No. i problem for the U.S. was still to keep up the purchasing power of the majority. This could be done only by lowered prices. Was it not time that management showed a high degree of economic statesmanship-and lowered prices on a broad scale? Were not profits so high-despite wage increases-that businessmen could afford to lower prices...
Last week, businessmen were told "yes." This time the telling was done, not by unions or other outsiders, but by industry's own National Planning Association's business committee. On it sits such industrial brass as Macy's Beardsley Ruml and General Electric's C. E. Wilson. Said N.P.A. in the bluntest warning business has yet received about its price policies: regardless of the reasons for the dangerous price situation, the responsibility for correcting it was "squarely up to businessmen. Other economic groups must cooperate. But it is to the risk-takers of our system that...