Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jawaharlal Nehru was getting just about the worst press he had ever received in India. What made everyone mad last week was his threat to resign his office, and then his tame turnabout when Congress Party politicians begged him to stay on (TIME, May 12). New Delhi columnist B. G. Verghese felt that Nehru had come close to "tearing off the mask of complacency and compromise that has been the bane of the Congress Party and the country," only to falter at the last minute: "He compromised without any gain. He threw away the opportunity that he himself had created...
...many a small airline that once did well. For years, Thai Airways flew two DC-48 along a neat little system spreading out from Bangkok to Tokyo and Calcutta; then after crashes in 1953, the line tried to break into the big time by ordering three big Lockheed Super-G Constellations. In service last year, the planes promptly started losing $350,000 a month for Thai. Now the planes are grounded because the airline does not have enough money to operate them. Philippine Air Lines almost came a cropper by pushing too hard on international flights to the U.S., Japan...
...Gigi (M-G-M), 14 years and three versions ago, was a dainty Colette novelette. Once a French movie, once a Broadway play, the spicy little tidbit is now a full-course feast for eyes and ears, an extravagant $3,000,000 cinemusical with four bright stars (Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Eva Gabor), a strong supporting cast, a topnotch director (Vincente Minnelli). words and music by My Fair Lady's Lerner and Loewe,* and some flooringly flamboyant sets and costumes by Cecil Beaton...
Rouge et Noir. The edge of Stendhal's satire is dulled by sentiment, but all the same his great novel makes a good movie; with Géerard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi (TIME...
...named Lila, who frets about being half-Jewish but whose physique is as firm as her psyche is wobbly. Lila is one of the zombi women who people modern fiction; she exists to do Tom's will. Tom himself plays zombi to Chris Hunt, a kind of ex-G.I. Dorian Gray who "tinkers with machines and people" and usually cracks up both...