Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refer to TIME's "piece" [Sept. 24] on the Imperial Hotel of Tokyo, Japan: I happen to be the architect, and the time-honored formula for an untimely finish seems to be already well into its second stage where TIME is concerned. The formula is: first, Success, then, Arrogance, then Downfall. I refer to an all too arrogant falsehood in the piece, which was not only a gross misrepresentation of my sentiments but proving in black & white that TIME can be a reckless liar...
Against the Wall. Things began to happen. Soldiers & sailors turned up, bought drinks, chased the pickets. Someone called the cops. Reporters and photographers appeared, made pictures, listened to Danny say, "They've got me up against the wall. . . ." The next day almost all Manhattan newspapers blossomed with stories, a few with editorials. Said the New York World Telegram: "A wounded veteran's little business is being ruined by picketing...
Weekend at the Waldorf (MGM) is Grand Hotel in modern dress. Hollywood has already earmarked it "pure box office," a term meaning that no matter what happens on the screen, the star-spangled cast is a cinch to make money. This is a very fortunate circumstance for MGM, since what does happen on the screen is not likely to hold anyone spellbound for the two hours and seven minutes that the film lasts...
...nation should ever again allow one of them to set foot on Canada's soil." One Government official angrily cried that he would prefer, personally, "to throw out every god damned one of them," regardless of citizenship. No Government, of course, would ever allow such a thing to happen...
...Rochemont-Hathaway-Monks approach to a purely fictional drama somehow suggests that the people on the screen are real and just happen to have been caught by a fortuitous camera. Actually, some of the film's G-men are the real McCoy. The picture serves up, as an added fillip, real FBI shots of pre-Pearl Harbor traffic in & out of the German Embassy...