Word: hues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Francis is played by a real Army veteran who underwent a 16-hour-a-day movie course with studio Trainer Jimmy Phillips. Recruited for the film from a Calabasas, Calif, mule dealer, he was dyed a darker hue from head to hoof, wore greasepaint on his mouth, powder on his nose, a "rat" in his tail, half-inch false eyelashes and-until he balked-extra-sized false ears. Like many a new-found star, patient Francis is currently making personal appearances with the picture...
Fifteen years ago, in 1935, Broadway theater audiences were being fed to the ears with doses of "social significance." Playwrights of every political hue were laboring to bring the social evils of the day before the people. They wrote their messages into some of the best plays the American theater has seen. From 1935 to 1937, plays like "Bury the Dead," "Waiting for Lefty," "Dead End," and "Winterset" dealt with the problems of war, labor strife, and crime. The evils existing under our capitalist economy were by far the most popular targets...
...Trip. Suave Finance Minister Leon Debayle wrote Lindberg asking for figures on his departmental expenditures for use in the new budget. Lind-berg's reply was short on details. "I want to know about those dollars," cried Debayle righteously. Managua's press joined in the hue...
...usual, the trouble involved the dictator-ridden Dominican Republic. Haiti's spokesman before the O.A.S. charged that the Dominicans, while raising a hue & cry about Cuban and Guatemalan plots against themselves, had actually been hatching a plot of their own against neighboring Haiti. The scheme, uncovered late last month, called for the murder of Haitian President Dumarsais Estimé and other high Haitian officials and-to provide a reason for indignation-the burning of the Dominican embassy in Port-au-Prince. In the ensuing panic, Dominican troops under the renegade Haitian colonel, Astrel Roland (TIME, Feb. 21), were...