Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been reformed. The popularity that stern, erect Marthe Richard had won as a heroine of the underground in two wars soon dwindled when, in 1945, as a crusading member of the Paris Municipal Council, she succeeded in closing the city's brothels (TIME, Dec. 31, 1945 et seq.). Deprived of their comfortable evenings in such ill-famed establishments as Le Sphinx and Le Poulailler, Frenchmen sneered as the once systematically supervised prostitutes took to the streets and alleys of Paris to ply their trade. The venereal disease rate soared and even Marthe was forced to confess that...
FOREIGN PAINTING: French Colorist Raoul Dufy (TIME, Nov. 8, 1948 et seq.), for a representative selection of his bright gay-spirited land- and seascapes...
...Dollar has waged a lone battle against the U.S. Government. His object: to force the Government to give him back the old Dollar Steamship Lines (now American President) which he had lost in 1938 when he could not pay a $7,500,000 Government loan (TIME, Nov. 27, 1950, et...
Clean Break. The Enquirer employees' committee, with the financial backing of Cleveland Financier Cyrus Eaton, had beaten out the Taft-owned Cincinnati Times-Star, which had expected to buy the Enquirer unopposed (TIME, Jan. 14 et seq.). Last week, in a complicated deal, Washington's district court approved the sale to Eaton, through his Portsmouth Steel Corp., for $7,600,000. Eaton turned the paper over to a new corporation, Cincinnati Enquirer, Inc., set up by the employees. Portsmouth Steel will hold two notes for $6,350,000 and $1,250,000 until they are paid...
Spanos, born in Greece and raised in Pittsburgh, decided while still attending Harvard Law School in 1946 that he would make his fortune in the movie business. To get a foot in the door, he wrote a thesis on the antitrust suits against the industry (TIME, Aug. 1, 1938 et seq.), marshaled arguments to answer all the Government's charges. Spanos' strategy worked. After he got his degree, the Motion Picture Association in New York hired him, and soon he joined a Hollywood firm which was defending exhibitors in antitrust suits...