Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last few weeks' mail has also brought offers from three U.S. publishers to distribute Hall's magazine in America, inquiries from newsdealers, bids from European publishing firms for foreign language editions. Two Swedish correspondents and representatives of two Australian newspaper chains have shown up for interviews, and the sedate London Times literary supplement reviewed Hall's magazine. Hall's old newspaper, the Guardian, sent a reporter around, too, and his article began: "The American news magazine TIME has been tickled by the enterprise of a new British publication...
...this year's influenza-like grippe was far more serious than the native garrotazo (literally, "clubbing"), which has afflicted Chileans for decades. Said Dr. Mario Plaza de los Reyes, a leading Santiago physician: "I've examined 30 cases and found in all of them symptoms similar to European grippe...
Married. David 0. Selznick, 47, cinemagnate (Gone With the Wind, Duel in the Sun); and Jennifer Jones, 30, cinemactress (The Song of Bernadette) ; each for the second time; in Genoa. The marriage, solemnized in the midst of preparations for Jennifer's new European-made film, Gone to Earth, was scripted by Selznick himself. After some rumors that the wedding had been performed at sea, the couple foxed reporters by slipping off to Genoa's city hall. Fadeout: a moonlit honeymoon on the French Riviera aboard the Manona, a 33-ton chartered yacht...
...plot comes from Ronald Reagan, who rarely gets a crack at light comedy. He does a good job of giving some old gags a new gloss; and masquerading as an immigrant student in one of Schoolmarm Mayo's naturalization classes, he gets off an excellent range of muddled European accents. Brightest piece of invention: a bit of hot-weather Americana, in which the sound track picks up the nasal lovemaking of a Brooklyn couple in the moonlit shadows of Jones Beach...
...Philadelphia Kaiser-Frazer agency one day last year, swarthy, greying Joe Pacifico heard about a new ECA plan. To encourage U.S. investments abroad and help European recovery, ECA would guarantee the conversion of profits into dollars for any projects that it approved. Joe remembered the old stone quarry near Naples which he had helped his father work as a boy. His brother Eugene and sister Carmela still ran it with primitive methods and materials...