Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sixth floor," he said. Then in blue pajamas and red dressing gown, he groped his way up the stairs to the valet's own room. A moment later a waiter looked up to see a red-clad figure sitting on the window sill. Then all that was left of Lucky Beatty lay crumpled on the pavement below...
Quotes from the Left. Burma's Communists are the chief beneficiaries of this Karen-Burmese hatred. Burma probably has less than 10,000 convinced Communists (split into two major groups), but it has millions of ardent leftists. Prime Minister Thakin Nu himself was long a disciple of Marx, and he depends for his chief parliamentary support on the Socialists, who are militantly nationalist and anticapitalist...
Spade-bearded Ivan Mestrovic is a man who puts strong feelings into his sculpture (TIME, Aug. 30, 1948), and has plenty left over when he has laid aside his mallet. Last week Mestrovic received an urgent invitation to return to Yugoslavia, where he was born and made his fame. The invitation came through Fellow Sculptor Jo Davidson, who had recently completed a bust of Marshal Tito, and it was from the Dictator himself. "Tell Mestrovic," Tito had said, "not to be a fool. Tell him to come back." The expatriate sculptor's blunt reply: "Too many of my friends...
Last June Newman left for Paris to take a vacation and get married, after Soviet Press Chief Georgi Pavlevich Frantsev promised that there would be no trouble getting a re-entry permit. (Until the regulations were changed last spring, such a permit had been automatically issued with the exit visa.) But when Newman tried to return to Moscow three months ago, he found the door shut. Last week the Herald Tribune reluctantly announced the closing of its vacant Russian office. That left just five U.S. correspondents in Moscow,* about half the number that was there when Reporter Newman arrived...
...more irreverent colleagues as "the lady bishop." In the hope of making news men "swear off swearing," she founded the Pure Language League, tried to get fellow staffers to sign pledges against cussing. Even in death Miss McDowell carried on her good fight. Her will, probated last week, left about $3,000 to the New York Newspaper Guild (of which she was not a member) to perpetuate the Pure Language League by distributing pamphlets. Said the Guild's Executive Vice President Tom Murphy: "Well, we've got the money, but I don't know what the hell...