Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just read your Aug. 18 item on the seminude show girls in Las Vegas. I don't think a Roman Catholic bishop has a right to tell night club owners to "dress" their performers. In France (nearly 90% Catholic), seminude show girls have been parading in nightclubs for umpteen years; French bishops don't insist on them covering...
...faculty on to greater and greater efforts in behalf of the "socialist reform" of the university. Among the signatures at the bottom was that of the university's rector, 63-year-old Josef Hämel. But on the very same page the paper carried a news item of quite a different sort. Hämel, said the story in almost unbelieving tones, "misusing the confidence put in him by the government," had fled to join "the atomic-war strategists...
...bosses left in control of his own studio, was hit by a stockholder's suit intended to deprive him of control. In the suit, a New York accountant charged Yates with improper stock deals and with running Republic "as though it were a private business.'' Supporting item in the complaint: for years Yates has been casting his wife, aging (37) Vera Ralston, possibly one of the most wooden actresses ever to appear on a screen, in a series of money-losing movies (Lady and the Monster, Belle Le Grand...
Nabokov's intellectual luggage included fragments of a book that later, published in Paris in 1955, became a must item of the contraband spice trade in which Henry Miller's Tropics have bulked large. Now. after several years of subterranean fame, Lolita has finally found a U.S. publisher. Following Nabokov's earlier excellent, offbeat novels (including Pnin, TIME, March 18, 1957), Lolita should give his name its true dimensions and expose a wider U.S. public to his special gift-which is to deal with life as if it were a thing created by a mad poet...
Communists exercise decisive power in the daily press. Item: when known Communists were caught with a cache of Molotov cocktails near one of the points on Vice President Nixon's canceled tour of Caracas, every paper except the Roman Catholic La Religión kept the story out of print. But when one of the arrested anti-Nixon rioters explained that he had joined in for a frolic and had no Communist ties, the story got headlines...