Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shows that one of the best ways for a student organization to make money is to show films. Last week, three College groups made an agreement that will assure them of a profit this year, but a gain at the expense of any other groups that may wish to exhibit pictures...
...groups agreed to show, jointly, one picture per week and split the revenues. A few weeks in each semester were left open for other student exhibitors, but it was not stated that these would occur during periods of the term when demand for entertainment is slight. Other organizations could exhibit during the desirable weeks, but such competition would probably prove too much of financial risk...
...denials, the report quickly spread all over Teheran last week, for if there was a diplomat with cause to be upset by life's inscrutable tricks, it was Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Lavrentiev, 49. When he went to Belgrade as ambassador in 1946, Marshal Tito was the prize exhibit in the Kremlin's gallery of satellite chiefs, and Diplomat Lavrentiev was in a cushy spot. Then Tito made his break with the Kremlin. (Shortly before the break, a brash Yugoslav diplomat asked Foreign Minister Molotov: "Why have you sent us such a stupid ambassador?" Replied Molotov: "Lavrentiev...
Only one picture was designed to remind Germans of Big Brother's big fist. Its title: The End. Subject: Hitler in his last moments in his crumbling Berlin bunker, a drooling, raving maniac surrounded by besotted generals. The rest of the exhibit was thoroughly predictable: noble Lenins, fatherly Stalins, travel-poster vistas of sunny harvest fields, hefty milkmaids, stern-jawed Stakhanovite workers, a tired, heat-racked oldster peering into the furnace glow whose portrait was entitled Esteemed Old Steel Puddler F. I. Sveshnikov. (Not to be confused with Esteemed Steel Puddler of the Hammer and Sickle Works...
Before the show moved on to Dresden this week, East Germany's Premier Otto Grotewohl picked the exhibit's "best." His choice: a drab and dreary panel of tea-swigging functionaries, painted by seven artists and called Meeting of the Presidium of the Academy of Science of the U.S.S.R. Declared Grotewohl: "It is colossal." And so it was-19 ft. 6 in. long by 9 ft. 10 in. high...