Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when war came, Cardinal Villeneuve shed his isolationism, urged French Canadians, foes of conscription and overseas service, to register for the draft and to enlist. He said in 1941 : "We are legally at war and we are bound to fight. . . . You cannot fight this war by condensing the horizon to this continent...
...fall of 1944 Millionaire Marshall Field, whose young Chicago Sun had not succeeded in rising above the commercial horizon, decided to grab the best talent his money could buy-preferably by taking it away from his rival, Colonel McCormick. Field invited Caniff to his apartment at 740 Park Avenue, blandly asked him: "What do you want?" Caniff hardly needed to answer: ownership of copyright. "I'm out to emancipate you," smiled Field. Then he added comfortably: "I imagine you're a well-paid slave...
Meditation on the ghostwriting of presidential speeches moved Novelist James Hilton (Lost Horizon) to a startling proposal. Why stop at speechwriting? he demanded in the Atlantic. "The late President was fortunate in having a magical radio personality; but for some future President who hasn't," Hilton tactfully put it, "why not borrow a Voice? And the step after that would be the Face-obviously one chosen for its photogenic qualities. . . . Thus would be evolved a composite of assorted perfections...
...cinemansions, "idiotic labyrinth of premieres, first runs," etc., Grierson prefers his neighborhood Crystal. ". . . By the time a film gets to the Crystal, the spit & polish have gone, the confidence trick of presentation and ballyhoo is an old damp squib of months ago, and Lost Horizon, Mr. Deeds, and the Hoot Gibsons, they all come even at last on the billboards. They have to talk across the hard floors and waste spaces of the peanuts to be good, with nothing to warm them except what is inside themselves, and that is as it should be. The Crystal is the place...
...like the opening scene from Lost Horizon. En route from Munich to Marseilles, a U.S. Army Dakota plane had been caught in an Alpine downdraft, had crash-landed on the Wetterhorn, in a yawning ice bowl just ten miles from Switzerland's famous peak, the 13,670-foot Jungfrau. Marooned at 9,800 feet on the slopes of Rosenlaui glacier was a curious company of twelve people, including an eleven-year-old girl, four women (three were wives of U.S. generals...