Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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STALIN (516 pp.)-Leon Trotsky- Harper...
Palooka is discovered in "the biggest little town in Pennsylvania" by Manager Knobby Walsh (Leon Errol), who eases him over such bumps in the K.O. road as love and gangsters, and into the championship. This groggy plot even includes the scene where the hero turns to wave at his girl in the crowd and is promptly flattened by his opponent. What saves the film is its hilarious ribbing of the fight game and fight pictures...
...Leon Chappelle Agee...
Short swarthy, smiling Leon Svirsky, a Nieman Fellow, on leave of absence from Time Magazine where he edited the Science department, fondly thinks that the traditional Time Jargon is one the way out. "I don't make any effort to write in the so-called Time style," he says. "We just try to make the news clear to everybody...
...TIME, aware that many sincere democrats supported the late President Leon Cortes Castro, still believes it fair to call him fascist-minded: 1) he accepted political support from a large group who adopted fascist trappings; 2) one of his chief advisers was the German Nazi Max Effinger, who was shipped to the U.S. for internment after Pearl Harbor; 3) he sent his son and political lieutenant to school in Germany and never repudiated the son's enthusiastic reports on Hitler...