Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frightening idea really began to ake hold on June 24, 1947. That was the lay when Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho ooked out of his airplane near Mt. Rainier nd saw-or thought he saw-nine enormous discs flying at 1,200 m.p.h. The .ewspapers began to talk about "flying saucers...
...flying-saucer idea sank into the public mind, all sorts of mysterious swooping things were reported. Policemen in Portland, Ore. saw discs that looked like 'shiny chromium hubcaps." Two pilots n Alabama saw a huge black object bigger than an airliner. A man in Oklahoma City saw a "saucer" as bulky as six 6-B29s. A prospector in the Cascade Mountains saw six discs that made the needle of his compass gyrate wildly. Little children saw little discs. Two kids in Hamel, Minn, reported that a dull grey disc two feet across had come right down between...
...Publicity. Martin du Gard began Jean Barois at 29, finished it three years later. After World War I, in which he had charge of an army truck corps, Martin du Gard conceived the idea of The Thibaults and reorganized his life to write it according to plan. The plan worked equally well on his country estate in Normandy or at his apartment in Nice. On Monday mornings he would disappear into his workroom; seldom reappear until Friday night...
Last Call. In Mexico City, a local newspaper ran a plaintive classified ad: "Young man about to be married seeks older experienced man to dissuade him from idea...
...idea of the "film society" is nothing very new, but it is nevertheless, flourishing today with all the vigor of a new idea. There is hardly a large city in the country whose citizens have not been lately offered a chance to see "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," "The Birth of a Nation," and other film classics. Although the audiences may be told that they are gathered together for the purpose of studying the new art form of the motion picture, there may be no more than a handful of really serious students of the cinema in each audience...