Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General MacArthur had a new press-agent last week, and Tokyo correspondents hoped for a new deal on news. Ex-General Frayne Baker, blamed by the reporters for much of the censorship trouble they had encountered in covering the Occupation (TIME, Feb. 2 et seq.), was transferred. His replacement was Colonel Marion P. Echols, 48, onetime P.R.O. at West Point...
...addition to the Mozart opus, Walter Piston's Symphony No. 3, Prokofiefi's Seythian Suite, Ala and Lolli, and Maurice Ravel's impressionistic Daphnis et Chloe Suite will be delivered before what is expected to be a sellout audience...
...scene is the Dublin drawing room of Sophia Sheridan (stylishly played by Meriel Moore), a retired actress who is helping a local little theater group do a play about Ireland's legendary Princess Etáin and her faery lover Midir. But while these people are languidly puttering around with legend, the real Etáin and Midir (nicely played by Helena Hughes and Playwright MacLiammóir) are working as Mrs. Sheridan's parlormaid and houseman. Immortals who have strayed far & long from fairyland, they go back to it, hand in hand...
...Salle Wagram, a marble and plush dance hall which also serves as a boxing arena, some 3,000 small shopkeepers, bakers, butchers and barbers, well-larded with party members, were assembled. Duclos, a plump parrot of a man, was on his best behavior, addressing them as "mesdames et messieurs," instead of "comrades." He shrewdly bracketed "Le Plan Marshall" with something his audience hated-"Le Plan Mayer," Finance Minister Rene Mayer's anti-inflation plan, which levies steep taxes on business and industry...
...marble building. It was touched off last week by Washington Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop. Their story, which went scrupulously un-denied, said that the Big Bosses-New York's Ed Flynn, Chicago's Ed Kelly and Jake Arvey, New Jersey's Frank Hague, et al.-had agreed on Douglas and had sent word to him that he could have the No. 2 spot if he wanted it. Justice Douglas' answer was not revealed...