Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...international service. Last summer we tested such a service with several hundred TIME families then planning overseas trips who wanted TIME to go with them. With their enthusiastic cooperation (they sent us postcard reports each week on the magazine's arrival), the plan worked. And now that we know it is feasible, we are happy to extend it to all subscribers to the U.S. and Canada editions. Thus, wherever you are (well, ALMOST wherever), perhaps in the hotels pictured here, you will be able to receive each week a copy of one of the international editions...
...literary and artistic friends were Gabriel Pascal, Somerset Maugham and Sir Max Beerbohm, and about these people he tells some of his most entertaining anecdotes. One day, Pascal--the Hungarian producer who procured the screen rights to all of Bernard Shaw's plays--said to Behrman, "Sahm, you know I ahm illegitimate descendant Talleyrand." Two weeks later, Behrman met Pascal again and the producer said, "Sahm, did I tell you I ahm illegitimate descendant Metternich?" Recounting these incidents in an unpublished New Yorker profile of Pascal, Behrman wrote, "Whatever differences may have separated the Congress of Vienna, it was united...
...London performance of The Second Man, Harold Laski introduced the playwright to a tremendously tall British lord ("He seemed interminable.") Sensing that the nobleman was not interested in the conversation, Laski said, "You know, Mr. Behrman wrote the play you're seeing tonight...
...reassuring to know that the United States can send a satellite, albeit a diminutive sphere in comparison to the Russian planet, around the sun. It is not so heartening to read about the snafu which resulted in "losing" the mute and more mundane "Discoverer I," the first polar satellite...
...crux of the problem, however, is Berlin," Hopper added. He insisted that we must stand firm there, predicting that "the Russians will be in the Ruhr before we know it, if we give up Berlin...