Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien, 12, who specializes in tearjerkers, played a real-life scene with all the stops out. Her widowed mother, Gladys, announced her engagement to an orchestra leader named Don Sylvio. Margaret objected with howls: on hearing the news, mother reported, Margaret "turned on the tears" and kept them at full flood for two days. Finally calmed down, Margaret read a new set of lines to the press like the trouper that she is: "I had hoped mother would wait until I am 14 and grown up. But since she wants to marry...
...Discreetly of Course." He played often in England, where he has long been a leader in the unimpressive field of British pianists, but it really took World War II to bring Solomon out. When he was not touring for the troops, he worked as an air-raid warden in his district of Kensington, fighting fires, digging out bomb victims, pausing only after the night's work to look at his hands...
...Manhattan public hall one day in 1943, 400 delegates of the Communist Party's Young Communist League met and announced they were dissolving their organization. Actually, they were only changing their name as part of Communist Leader Earl Browder's (and Moscow's) short-lived project of cozying up to capitalistic democracy...
Last week the Communist rebels of Greece announced a successor to the vanished Markos Vafiades (TIME, Feb. 14). The new leader and "temporary Premier" was loannis (John) loannidies, a seasoned, sinister and widely feared revolutionist who has been a member of the Communist Party since 1918. Henceforth, said the rebel broadcast, the party would have no more truck with "nationalist diversions." Military commanders who could not absorb "Stalinist military science" (i.e., politics first, military exigencies second), would follow Markos into oblivion...
...They had neglected grass-roots organizing. Their party was badly split in the district; they had run a weak candidate who leaned on the fact that his father once represented the riding. Nevertheless, the election threw an unaccustomed scare into the Liberals. The Tories felt nothing but joy. When Leader George Drew entered Parliament the night of the election, party colleagues gave him a loud cheer and, following time-honored custom, threw copies of Hansard (equivalent to the Congressional Record) across the House...