Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your abbreviated item on the proposal to the National Lutheran Council for a "fullscale spiritual invasion of the Roman Catholic countries of Latin America" [TIME, Feb. 15] is the result of an unfortunate misquotation which, I regret to admit, originated as a molehill in our own news bureau and has become a mountainous misrepresentation of my report. This report was concerned principally with the gathering of our own scattered and unchurched Lutherans who . have gone to South America as refugees and immigrants . . . This is a work of the Lutheran World Federation, which is not authorized to establish missionary enterprises...
...Main item in a broad program for which the agreeing governors and psychiatrists will need legislative support: supplying qualified personnel (doctors, nurses and trained attendants) in such numbers that vigorous and more effective treatment can begin as soon as a patient is admitted to a hospital, or (preferably) in time to prevent the need for admission. Another item was stepped-up research, but Tennessee's Governor Frank G. Clement contended with good reason that present knowledge is not being put to use. As he phrased it: "If we knew as much about the cure of cancer...
Capitol Records pioneered five years ago with a Hollywood-designed item called Music Out of the Moon. It was about as distinctive as a movie sound track, but it was decorated with a photograph of a half-covered girl and billed as "music that can affect the sensitive mind in a way that is sometimes frightening . . . always fascinating." Its sales exceeded all expectations. After that, most major labels got busy...
...same group received hundreds of thousands of dollars in expense money, including large amounts listed only as "miscellaneous." "additional." "special," and "extraordinary" expenses. In 1951 President J. T. Kingsley's expense account totaled $78,986, McGinnis collected $32,250, the chief item being $20,865 for "entertaining, luncheons, dinners, etc." Kingsley's listed expenses included $2,746 for "beverages and provisions" for a penthouse on Miami's swank Ponce de Leon Hotel and $1,290 for membership and fees to the equally plush Surf Club in Miami Beach. The Norfolk Southern also paid...
...Bride, An American in Paris), as skilled a comedy hand as Hollywood employs, has a way of letting the story babble on absently between solid banks of common sense until the audience is lulled in smiles. Then all at once the boat is rocking wildly in farcical white water. Item: Actress Ball, wearily trying to climb into bed with the trailer tipped sideways at a 30° angle, suddenly loses balance, reels against the outside door, does a back dive into a two-foot-deep puddle of rich brown mud. As she sits there, looking like a beauty-parlor victim...