Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although started long before President Truman's Point Four program, the big-scale plan might well serve as a model for Point Four planners...
...studios at Shepherd's Bush and Islington. Rank, who could use the money, hopes that they will be knocked down for not less than ?250,000, possibly to BBC's television division. (The studios are too antiquated to interest U.S. moviemakers in England.) Of the four studios which will be left to Rank, two are shut tight and two are operating at only half their capacity. Last week, Rank and his subsidiaries had just four productions before the cameras, compared with ten a year ago. An actor at liberty summed it up with an old Hollywood...
Married. George Orwell (real name: Eric Blair), 45, British-born political satirist (Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four'); and Sonia Brownell, 30, an editor of London's highbrow literary monthly, Horizon; he for the second time ; in 'a London hospital where he is suffering from tuberculosis...
...other little girl had ever grown up quite like Shirley Temple. She was a movie actress at four,* a star at six, and then a dimpled, curly-topped national institution. Between seven and ten, she was the No. 1 box-office draw in the U.S.; at eight, she was the most photographed human being on earth. At nine, while other little girls waited for their permanent teeth to come in, she wore costly false teeth to hide the gaps from the camera. When she was ten, a Dies Committee witness denounced her as a Communist dupe...
...startled millions of Americans who have followed her precocious public & private life with affection and a worrisome feeling that the years do whiz by. She filed a divorce suit against handsome, 28-year-old John Agar, the Army Air Forces sergeant who became a cinemactor after their marriage four years...