Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting was over, about a thousand right-thinkers-Wallaceites, Communists, fellow travelers and troubled innocents-clumped determinedly two blocks east to the huge Roxy Theater. They lugged picket signs and clutched bundles of leaflets, which had been prepared in advance. They were out to boo the opening of The Iron Curtain, the anti-Soviet propaganda story* of Russian atom spies in Canada. (TIME...
Surrender in Denver. Inside the Roxy all was serene. The Iron Curtain wasn't even playing that night. Six weeks before, the management had decided not to hold a preview, neglected to tell anybody about it. The picture opened uneventfully the next morning while four Pinkertons, hired to beef up the ushering staff, twiddled their thumbs in the aisles...
Before the week was out, The Iron Curtain had also opened at some 380 other U.S. and Canadian theaters. Some were picketed, some were not; nowhere else were there fights. In Denver the woman manager of the Esquire sympathized with a lone picket: "You must get pretty discouraged. Come on in and see the show as the guest of the management." Said he: "I guess I might as well...
...September night in 1945, Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko stuffed some damning papers inside his shirt, and walked out of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa to crack open Canada's spy case. Last week, with the movie The Iron Curtain (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) opening in a dozen Canadian cities and Gouzenko's new book This Was My Choice (Dent Ltd.; $3) going on sale, Canadians checked on the cast of characters in their spy drama...
There are, of course, conflicting views on "The Iron Curtain." The New York Roxy is now being picketed by the (Wallace) Committee Against War Propaganda. And those pickets, in turn, are being counter-picketed by the Catholic War Veterans. A petition of protest against the film has been signed by 297 leading Protestant clergy over the country, including five bishops. On the opening night, there was a near-riot beneath the Roxy marquee, involving reported 2,000 persons. Mr. Spyros P. Skouras, of 20th Century Fox, said "those who banded together last night to boycott the film are attacking...