Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even after success came to Claude Debussy with his Pelleas et Melisande and Prélude a l'Après-midi d'un Faune, the bearlike composer helped support himself for nearly ten years by scribbling pieces for Paris journals. A collection of his musical criticisms called Monsieur Croche, the Dilettante Hater (Lear; $2.75), long out of print in the U.S., was republished this week. Music-lovers who admire Composer Debussy may not always agree with Critic Debussy-but some of his judgments are as luminous as his music. For his critical 'dirty work and malicious...
When it bought the Biro ball-point patents for $1,600,000 (TIME, Nov. 12, 1945) et seq. Eversharp hoped to capture the pen market. But many another company, notably Reynolds Pen, got there first and skimmed the cream off. When Eversharp did get its pen out, it ran into the same trouble that plagued the other ball-point penmen: the pen did not write well...
...Fugitive, is an unabashed potboiler. An idiotically reckless martinet (nicely played by Henry Fonda) tries to impose spit & polish on a begallused garrison in the Far West. After leading a suicidal charge against the local Indians, he is posthumously adored as a hero-except by the men (John Wayne, et al.) who had to carry out his orders. His daughter, a stock Pert Chit by the name of Philadelphia Thursday (Shirley Temple), meanwhile romances with a young officer (played, in appropriate magazine-illustration style, by Miss Temple's real-life husband, John Agar...
Stockholders of the Société des Bains de Mer et du Cercle des Etrangers à Monaco (Sea Bathing and Foreigners' Club of Monaco), which runs the Casino, got the news at a meeting in the Casino's ornate Salle Ganne, a floor below the gaming rooms. While gamblers tried their hand upstairs at roulette, baccarat, and trente et quarante, 70-year-old Chairman Alfred Delpierre explained how the odds had worked against the house...
...revolutionaries-Laurent Casanova, Andre Marty, et al.-took a licking when they tried a campaign of insurrection. Thorez stood his ground, waited for a signal from Moscow. Would Moscow order a detente (letup) or a bagarre (showdown...