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...Lest...
...that middle road the CRIMSON is in danger of injury from both sides. In urging forward its reforms, the paper must still keep a certain amount of lightness lest it lose its surface attractiveness and its readers. Too much, sensationalism would make the paper worthless...
...them Red blazes: "Miserable chatterers, talking like a foreign gramophone record . . .! You will remember that in this Assembly I many times warned coalition members of Nikola Petkov's group but they did not listen. They lost their heads, and their leader lies buried. Reflect on your own actions, lest you suffer the same fate . . .!" Lulchev and associates reflected furiously. Dimitrov's budget was adopted unanimously...
Nevertheless, there was hope that things were not so dark as Hollywood thought. Last week Britain was still trying to work out a deal to modify the effects of the tax, lest it wreck Britain's own theater business and seriously weaken Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank's empire just when he has a chance to earn some badly needed dollars (TIME, Dec. 21). And no matter how Hollywood feared the bark of pressure groups, the bite had not yet proved painful. Among the two big moneymakers of 1947, according to Variety, were David O. Selznick's Duel...
Tobin stood up and roared: "He'll do what I tell him to do. He'll do what the general president wants him to do." At this, Dave tiptoed to a hall door and closed it, lest Dan Tobin's voice be heard all over the Statler's fourth floor...