Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the committeemen adjourned for a few weeks. But that wasn't the end of it. The Navy promptly suspended Worth, and ordered a court of inquiry to find out just how many other Navymen had helped him to put his statement together. The Navy board would have company. Carl Vinson and Committee Counsel Joseph B. Keenan also promised that they would get to the bottom of Cedric Worth's undercover campaign against the Air Force and the Administration. Most committee members believed that Bureaucrat Worth could not have done it without a lot of help from Navy...
Another congressional outcry died in an embarrassed whisper. After three months of investigation the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy was still unable to find any evidence of the "incredible mismanagement" Senator Bourke Hickenlooper had charged up to the Atomic Energy Commission and its chairman, David Lilienthal (TIME, June 6). In fact, the committee members had gotten so apathetic that Chairman Brien McMahon was unable to round up a quorum even to declare the hearings officially ended...
...Girl In the Painting (Rank; Universal-International) begins with a mere dab of an idea. A British major (Guy Rolfe), dropping in at a London exhibition of wartime paintings, falls in love with a portrait of "Hildegard" (Mai Zetterling), a beautiful displaced blonde, and determines to find her. In the course of ransacking D.P. camps in occupied Germany, he meets not only Hildegard but a sinister, disguised SS general...
What happened to Melville in 1850? To find out, Professor Howard Vincent has dug through the materials Melville used for Moby-Dick, and produced an ingenious study in literary genetics...
...Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return...