Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Focus of attention for Crimson supporters may well be quarterback Keb O'Donnell, last fall limited by an injury to defensive work only. Interest will also center on youthful running-passer Jim Kenary who will try his hand as Gannon's counterpart to the right...
Secretary Marshall's proposals represent an example of the correct approach to the problem of making the U. N. a more effective agency. The recommendations, even if not accepted, will serve to focus attention on the continuing task of maintaining the peace. A sudden leap into Utopia is not to be expected. Even gradual change will not be effected without a good deal of inflammatory debate. But the gradual approach, however discouraging and unproductive it may appear at times, is the approach that in the long run will yield results. Prophets of doom who insist that the only salvation...
...getting in & out of such scrapes, partly because his job was to find trouble, and partly because his pidgin-toed English was not always a help. But he came back with pictures that are an eloquent one-man record of World War II. Last week, in Slightly Out of Focus (Henry Holt, 243 pp., $3.50), he assembled an album of the best of them. It opens with a shot of the convoy that he rode to Britain in 1942, and closes with the young machine-gunner he snapped on an open balcony in Leipzig, seconds before the boy was shot...
Moscow, the holy and the bloody, the loved and the dreaded, last week was a historic focus of rejoicing and remembrance. Her crown of spires and belfries shone in freshly gilded splendor, and the cupolas of her innumerable churches sat m the sky like frozen clouds. The cross atop the Tower of Ivan the Great glistened m the sun, and told visitors approaching from all over Russia that they were near their goal. In the streets, the people lanced and blessed their city upon its 800th anniversary. It was as Moscow's son, Alexander Pushkin, had written "Moscow: those...
...remained for Secretary Marshall and Arthur Vandenberg, back in Washington, to focus attention on the job done. "One thousand percent worthwhile," said Vandenberg, and took the U.S. press to task for what he thought too scant and uncomprehending treatment of Rio's accomplishments. Another who knew what Rio meant was U.S. Ambassador Bill Pawley. His thorough background job in advance of the Conference had done a lot to pave the way for the most successful hemispheric meeting in years...