Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Babel to Eden. In quiet Havana, distant from the main stream of events, 53 nations last week signed and tossed into history's lap a weighty compact. Typically, the nations' delegates were apt to speak not of "free trade," but of "freer trade." In the smudged lexicon of economic diplomacy, "freer" meant less free, not more free. The term indicated that the best anyone could hope for was a slow, gradual removal of the tangled barriers, prohibitions and nationalist restrictions. At Geneva last year 18 nations had managed to write a draft charter for the proposed International Trade...
...visited briefly in 1946). The play tells how Lizzie McKaye, a Northern prostitute new to a Southern town, is unsuccessfully high-pressured but effectively soft-soaped into accepting the town's mores. She signs a paper that frames a Negro for rape and lets a white murderer go free. Afterwards Lizzie (well played by Meg Mundy*) feels tricked and disturbed, hides the Negro during a manhunt. But Liz eventually becomes resigned and "respectful"-she agrees to be the mistress of a particularly bigoted big shot...
...buyers had begun to see the beauty of the beast's work. In that year he published his ambiguous Notes of a Painter, which have been quoted as his final word ever since. "What I dream of," he wrote, "is an art that is equilibrated, pure and calm, free of disturbing subject matter ... a means of soothing the soul . . . like a comfortable armchair. . . ." That simile has led critics to expect far less of Matisse than he expected of himself...
Having recently decided to run for President, Howdy adds a new "thingumajig" to his platform each week from viewers' suggestions (samples: cut-rate banana splits, more pictures in history books, free circus and rodeo admissions). Last week Howdy announced that he would send campaign buttons to any child who wrote in. Two days later, the first order of 5,000 buttons had been exhausted, and requests were still arriving by the sackful...
...Pulitzer Prize once went to a pint-sized reporter who was small enough to crawl into a cave and interview Floyd Collins. Five Detroit Free Pressmen won the prize for reporting an American Legion parade. Ambidextrous Reuben Maury earned his Pulitzer for his "power to in fluence public opinion": a self-confessed hireling, he used to write isolationist editorials for the New York Daily News, interventionist editorials for Collier...