Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will find that General Marshall is the 51st Secretary of State and not the <(48th ... in the line started by Thomas Jefferson" [TIME, Jan. 27]. You could arrive very close to your figure-49-by eliminating the return engagements of Daniel Webster and James G. Elaine, but that isn't good political arithmetic, albeit reportorial face-saving...
Riley enlisted men's club. "The hostess tries her best," he explained, "but it's a pretty dull place." Aside from the movies, a couple of 3.2 beer parlors and a bowling alley, "Junk Town" isn't much better. The Army life is still a lonely life and the corner of Sixth and Washington at 10 p.m. is still a pretty lonely corner, as lonely as thousands of corners known by thousands of U.S. soldiers...
Critic Jewell was far beyond the swooning stage. "A few of us," he warned, "incline to rate the new Picassos as little better than disastrous. . . . Picasso, in his recent oil work, may be said to paint vigorously-which isn't being really very explicit, I know. In my opinion his sense of color has grown steadily worse. . . . There remains the matter of distortion, and in that department he moves with the utmost freedom...
...remote, high-slung clothes lines; he rushes on stage between the shafts of a cart and asks the audience if they have seen a horse go up the aisle. But there are dreary spells when the book is too much for him, and much drearier spells when he isn't even around...
...while Selznick claimed that Duel's grosses in Los Angeles were running some 25% better than Gone With the Wind, he was still undecided on the next move. "After all," he said hopefully, "the Legion of Decency hasn't even seen the picture and it isn't classified yet. The archbishop merely issued a warning...