Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gordon is particular about his shop hours; he doesn't like to unlock before noon. "There isn't much happening around here in the morning. I used to open up quite a bit in the morning, but the only person who came to see me then was T. S. Eliot's sister-in-law." Afternoons, however, the Grolier Book Shop becomes a community haven and meeting place. Last year, a girl working on a novel used the back room of his shop. Standing on Gordon's bookshelves are the drawings and water-colors of whatever unknown artist he happens...
...police were summoned, and upon their arrival were addressed by Feeney: "They are haters of the blessed Virgin, desecrators of the Mother of God. Over there in Adams House we hear all sorts of foul language and we never do anything. But this is too much. If there isn't fast action on this, it will...
LIKE all French Finance Ministers, Félix Gaillard occupies quarters in the Palace of the Louvre, and en route to his private dining salon passes through the state apartment of Napoleon III with its massive chandeliers, velvet drapery and columns, caryatids and cherubs encrusted with gold leaf. "Ugly, isn't it?" remarked Gaillard cheerfully to a TIME reporter. "All the gold I own is on these walls." This week Félix Gaillard arrives in the U.S. See FOREIGN NEWS, France's Daring Young...
...modern industrial economy. Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes has spent more for public improvements than the economy could stand, and the Turkish economy today is plagued by inflation and hobbled by a shortage of consumer goods. The Turks have a word for it. The word is yok, which means, "There isn't any." It is yok for coffee and chocolate, knives and forks, writing paper and ink, appliances and spare parts. Had it not been for U.S. aid, it would have been yok this year for flour...
...decided to deprive the U.S. of one of the few authentic geniuses produced by the movies. Last week a new Chaplin film, A King in New York, which may never be shown in the U.S., had its world première in London. Cries of "Good old Charlie!" and "Isn't he sweet?" greeted Chaplin from a dressy charity crowd in diamonds and dinner jackets. But though the crowd liked Chaplin, it was less than enthusiastic about the movie. Said the Manchester Guardian: "To watch a new Chaplin film without once being made helpless with laughter and without shedding...