Word: fixer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More and more TIME wives will face problems like this as peace makes it possible for them to join their husbands overseas-so you might like to know more about what Mrs. Craig Thompson and TIME'S travel-fixer. Jack Manthorp, found themselves up against the other...
Bigger, better and costlier memoirs were on the way. With General Wainwright at Ashford General Hospital, White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., last week was Hearst's ace story fixer, Bob Considine, who put together Captain Ted Lawson's Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. Beginning Oct. 7, the Wainwright story will be syndicated in 42 installments (to some 250 newspapers) by King Features, which is paying the General a reported $155,000-the equivalent (before taxes) of 19 years' base...
...picture: an in quisitive governess (Gail Russell); a suspiciously unpleasant widower (Joel McCrea); a medical neighbor with a voice like sloe gin (Herbert Marshall); a brutal and mysterious murder; two edgy chil dren (Nona Griffith and Richard Lyon) in sadistic league about some grim secret; a sour-eyed furnace-fixer (Mikhail Rasumny) ; and a rumor of wandering lights in the boarded-up mansion next door...
Stuff & Things. Venus Fixer DeWald, a softspoken, pipe-smoking ex-professor of art history at Princeton, was an infantry officer in World War I. Colonel DeWald has followed on the heels of advancing Allied armies, listing damage, determining what "first aid" is needed. When he sees some of the atrocities committed on art by the retreating Nazis, he frequently has trouble with his blood pres sure. During the past year Colonel De Wald, who invariably refers to Italy's priceless objets d'art as "stuff & things," could sketch, from reports of his staff, a broad outline of what...
Watch on Bucharest. With no waste of time, the U.S. and Britain let Moscow know that they disliked the smell of the Government set up in Bucharest last fortnight by the Kremlin's fixer, Andrei Januari Vishinsky (TIME, March...