Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, and Marilyn Monroe play three young women who decide that they must marry wealthy men to realize their altruistic ambitions for society. Their plans for fulfilling their desires should be of ultimate interest to that large section of the Harvard-Radcliffe community bent on realizing similar desires. The individual experience of each of these girls forms a miniature morality play, a soul-searching sermonette...
WHAT is news? Webster says simply that it is "matter of interest," a definition at once prosaic yet broad. Much interests TIME'S readers, their normal curiosity whetted by headlines, radio bulletins, TV shows. Sometimes some of the most important news of the week is made by these headlines. Newsmen rarely, if ever, report the news about themselves. Last week one story that shouted out of the front pages and caused repercussions both in the U.S. and in Europe-the story of John Foster Dulles' press conference-was created by the press, and thus what reporters, pundits...
...Warm Wind." Here and there, a paper abandoned objectivity, but generally with such heavy-handed scorn as to be self-defeating. The New York Daily News larded its stories so lavishly with sarcasm ("The Deputy Premier showed a capitalistic-type interest in Macy's varied wares-and didn't steal a thing") that the reader was invited only to sympathize with the victim. The Chicago American vented its spleen in a front-page box: "Everyone is asking, 'Who sent for him?' " For the most part, the press attempted to balance its Mikoyan account with sound editorials...
...week when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an antitrust decree against the International Boxing Clubs of New York and Illinois. The decision broke the strangle hold I.B.C. has exercised on title bouts, directed I.B.C. Kingpins James D. Norris and Arthur M. Wirtz to dissolve both clubs, sell their controlling interest in New York's Madison Square Garden, open both the Garden and Chicago Stadium to any qualified promoter. Neither the Garden nor the Stadium may stage more than two championship fights a year. ¶ Thrashing purposefully against a stop watch in the Olympic pool at North Sydney, Australia...
Gloria has never married or come close. Her interest in "my people" takes up so much of her time that last year she opened a restaurant called Brown's on Manhattan's 61st Street (last week's party site) just so "we could have our own place to meet." There she holds day-long confessionals, deflating outsize egos or nursing bruised ones. Says Gloria in her tumbling, still vaguely Brooklynese accent: "To me agenting is not selling lamps at Macy...