Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Ogonek, Georgi Blok describes a sensational exhibit at a recent meeting of the Moscow Surgical Society. On the platform close to the guests of honor stood a large white dog, wagging its tail. From one side of its neck protruded the head of a small brown puppy. As the surgeons watched, the puppy's head bit the nearest white ear. The white head snarled...
...average of once a month our Merchandising Director Briscoe ("Beezer") Ranson crates up his exhibits, alerts his truckers and carpenters, and sets out to tell TIME'S story to some major gathering. Different conventions call for different types of exhibits. At one convention of retail clothiers, for example, our exhibit was labeled "Mr. TIME'S Bedroom." It was simply a bedroom containing the precise number of hats (3), shoes (6 pairs), suits (7) and personal effects owned by the average male reader of TIME. The articles displayed were, of course, those of TIME advertisers...
...Another exhibit is used to demonstrate TIME'S broad readership. This is our Post Office Booth, where we have a file of the names and addresses of all U.S. TIME subscribers broken down by states. The people attending a convention are invited to look over the list of our subscribers in their own home towns. Usually they are challenged to name a post office anywhere in the U.S. which does not have at least one TIME subscriber. If by chance they can do so, they get a prize of a silver dollar...
...amply gifted with every good quality of mind and heart"), gets his shrift shortened. Grove V explains that he expected a minimum of intellectual effort from his audiences and failed to write a successful opera because he was unwilling to "speak of his own emotional life: to exhibit naked feeling appeared as a breach of etiquette." Mild-mannered Cyclopedist Blom, 66, also sharpened up his donnish ax on the Queen's English and "made war" on certain usages that irked him. Among the casualties: GLISSANDO, which Blom calls a "mock-turtle with a French head and an Italian tail...
...which he shows movies of the Nazi gas chambers would delight any red-blooded ghoul, and his poker-face in delivering such lines as "You're shocked at my cold-bloodedness" is, for some inexplicable reason, hilarious. Welles is suitably desperate as the Nazi, even though he fails to exhibit any quality which could conceivably have inspired his wife's animal-like devotion to him. Loretta Young plays the animal...