Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II, we began to consolidate our 21 widely scattered editions, including the wartime V-mail miniature which many an ex-G.I. still keeps as a souvenir of his overseas duty. These became TIME Atlantic, printed in Paris; TIME Pacific, printed in Tokyo; TIME Latin America, printed in Havana, and TIME Canadian, printed in Chicago...
...prospect of proclaiming a new Jewish state. Since then Sharett, who took time last week even in the middle of his resignation speech to correct a misspelling in his notes, has occupied himself with tempering Ben-Gurion's most headstrong policies. It was Sharett who successfully fought "B.-G.'s" plan to attack Gaza after the Arab murder of praying schoolchildren in Shafrir (TiME, April...
...Radio Workshop (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS). The Eternal Joan, with excerpts from Anatole France, G. B. Shaw, Mark Twain, Voltaire...
After turning down $50 million for the sale of its movies to a company that distributes films on TV, M-G-M announced last week that it is getting into the business of distributing films on TV itself. The studio also announced that it is going to buy or acquire an interest in TV stations (limited by Federal Communications Commission to five for any one owner), said that it will expand its activities to special productions for TV and that it will dump on the TV market for the first time about 770 feature films and 900 shorts, all produced...
...luminously intelligent study of a representative theme of our time . . . truly astounding." Part of the critical hubbub rose from the fact that Author Wilson, just turned 25, shows a staggeringly erudite grasp of the works and lives of Bernard Shaw, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William Blake, George Fox, H. G. Wells, Henri Barbusse, Hermann Hesse, Van Gogh, T. E. Lawrence, Nijinsky, Sartre, Camus, Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme, Kierkegaard, Kafka, Gurdjieff and Sri Ramakrishna, not to mention many lesser figures. But what makes The Outsider a compelling intellectual thriller is that Author Wilson uses bits and pieces of these...