Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wright, who was born in Los Angeles and has spent almost all of his life there (except for a hitch as a U.S. Navy pilot and a TIME correspondent in London) can recall the time when "there was little more than wheatfields beyond Western Avenue." He found that the Los Angeles story was a rediscovery of his hometown. For Ed Rees, a native of Delaware, it was a firsthand discovery. After talking to architects, sociologists, county supervisors, meteorologists, etc. he found that some of his pet theories about...
...established an advertising office there and, a year later, began printing TIME in Los Angeles for distribution to the Pacific Coast states and Alaska. At present, 300,000 weekly copies of TIME and 700,000 copies of LIFE are printed in Los Angeles at Pacific Press, the largest printing plant west of Chicago. And, in keeping with the spectacular growth of Southern California, TIME Inc.'s Los Angeles bureau now consists of 25 reporters, photographers, etc. As such, it is second only to Washington, D.C. as our largest and busiest U.S. news bureau...
...aging, bedridden Signora had been shrewd enough to quit her life as a ruthless courtesan before she became the victim instead of the victimizer of men. Now her cook, spying from the window on what happened in the Via del Corno, kept her supplied with the essential information for her intrigues and extortions. In the end, deserted and foiled, the half-crazed Signora determined to punish the entire street; she bought up every house and ordered wholesale evictions. But her fury brought on a stroke that left her a speechless idiot, while the Fascists collected the rent on her houses...
...dozens of lightly sketched characters; others will gag on the implication that communism was the only answer to Mussolini. But A Tale of Poor Lovers is no U.S.-brand party-line novel. It is wise, involved and European-a swarming microcosm of social and psychological complexities in modern Italian life...
...Meanwhile, the blockade had barely been lifted in Berlin when the life of the city was violently disrupted again by a prolonged strike among...