Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distinguished visitor with the brown, gem-cut face and Oriental costume stepped agilely from the Independence and shook President Truman's hand. He looked startled at the first manifestation of democracy, U.S. style; photographers were shouting to the President: "Bring Mr. Nehru over here." The President willingly obliged. But Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, regained his smile as Harry Truman welcomed him to the U.S. The President had a pleasant little speech ready: ". . . Destiny ruled that our country should have been discovered in the search for a new route to yours...
...constructed Double Portrait of a mother and daughter showed the dean of U.S. portraitists at the top of his form. At 80, Hopkinson is more than ever concerned with creating an illusion M>f reality on canvas. "Things are really there," he explains, with a diffident wave of his hand, "so why shouldn't one try to capture the thereness of them...
After disconsolately considering 30 candidates, Markel suddenly thought of a man who had not even applied. Last week Sunday Editor Markel got his man: Francis Brown, 45, an Old Times Hand and, for the last four years, a senior editor of TIME...
...bears, on the other hand, argued that the inventory boom which had started in August was already tapering off, and that the strikes were bound to give the economy another push down. Even if the walkouts were settled soon-and there was no sign of that-many a company was bound to feel the effects on its fourth-quarter earnings. Gloomiest talk of all came this week from Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer. He said that the strikes had already checked "the upward trend in business and employment," and that there would be "serious damage to the economy...
...Heiress (Paramount) is a handsomely mounted, sumptuously acted film about a wallflower whose only social grace is a neat hand at embroidery. Directed and produced by William Wyler (Wuttiering Heights, The Best Years of Our Lives), The Heiress bears the Wyler trademark of painstaking high gloss. It is also a solid and impressive movie aimed at adults...