Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...managing editor who likes a good, splashy crime story, the murder of Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel in a Beverly Hills mansion (TIME, June 30) had everything. Last week the tabloids of Manhattan, the sensational papers of Los Angeles and, to a lesser degree, papers all over the U.S. played it high, wide & handsome...
...Morgan, an agent of justice, pretends before the lesser crooks that he is a major public menace called The Poet. Then he has to convince them that he is the husband of The Poet's wife (Jane Wyman). This offers a chance for a tedious kind of bedroom humor from which westerns used to be a refuge; at one point Mr. Morgan and Miss Wyman, snug under separate blankets, even play footie. Entertaining moment: Janis Paige, bulging a skintight costume and singing Cheyenne, a pretty nice oat-fed tune...
...This is a poor return for the amount of information about the U.S. disclosed daily in its free press, but it means even less to the average Russian reader. In general, he may doubt the word of his lesser newspapers, but when Pravda or Tass (the news agency) speaks, he feels that he is listening to the voice of his Government and is inclined to believe. There are exceptions, of course. I once asked a Russian acquaintance what he thought about a Tass account of a U.S. Negro youth congress which condemned lynchings and the activities of certain U.S. Senators...
...with the 5,000 Britons at the party found it hard to get close to royalty. Mrs. Adele Vercoe, who is an old hand at such functions, having lived in England on & off for years, managed a quick bob before the Queen Mother. Tish had to content herself with lesser folk. "The men," she said later, "were the most attractive bunch I've ever seen, but then I think Englishmen are terrific anyway...
...Behind the cool glass panes of the Pepsi-Cola United Nations Center, an underpublicized celebrity was speaking on international friendship. It was Lidiya Gromyko, the diplomat's wife, appearing on the 21st of a series of ABC broadcasts on United Nations First Ladies. The interviewer: Alma Kitchell, a lesser Mary Margaret McBride. The broadcast was conceived in the widespread, well-meaning conviction (shared by the more thoughtful teenagers, the more optimistic cocktail partygoers and UNESCO) that a thorough exchange of information is the shortest route to mutual understanding between the U.S. people and the Government of Russia. The exchange...