Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week George Backer (assisted by Industrial Designer Norman Bel Geddes) gave the Post a thoroughgoing beauty treatment, spent something over $60,000 to lift its typeface, departmentalize its news. In a 32-page edition (biggest since Publisher Backer acquired it), with a handsome new logotype atop p. 1, bolder headlines, no rules between columns, the Post made its bid to head off such newspaper innovations as Ralph McAllister Ingersoll's new evening tabloid, P. M., announced for next June (TIME, Jan. 22). Stories inside were squared off, divided by rules (like boxes) with separate departmental heads. Up from...
...Blackout blues" was New York Timesman Raymond Daniell's phrase for Great Britain's state of mind last week. Members of the War Cabinet went on the stump to give the country a lift, but the first of their speeches to that end-by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill-gave it a laugh instead...
...then the hold the fans were waiting for -his touted bear hug. He simply crooked his cordwood arms around Luigi's vast circumference, hooked his stubby broomstick fingers behind, squeezed. Bacigalupi wheezed and bellowed while his breath lasted, then the Angel grabbed him with an inside crotch & lift, slammed him to the mat and pinned him for fall No. 1 in just short of six minutes. Fall No. 2 took only 2:12. Twenty minutes later handlers carried Luigi off, done in for at least two weeks...
...stopped the leaks. Meanwhile the water level had sunk, the Corsair was sitting upstream, on her bottom. Tearing his hair was Imperial Airways Ace Captain Kelly Rogers, first pilot to land in New York harbor at night, who inaugurated the British north Atlantic mail service. Said he afterward: "To lift the Corsair from the water we had to sink huge petrol tanks under the wings and then turn them into lifting camels by emptying them. Where we started, the river was only 50 yards wide and the Corsair spans 38 yards. We took careful soundings, adjusted the load...
...Havilland). In the first Goldwyn version, Ronald Colman played Raffles with ardor. David Niven plays the part with crookish cunning. But Niven's cunning is no match for Scotland Yard in the person of Dudley Digges. As canny, candy-munching In spector Mackenzie, Actor Digges, who can lift a scene with less effort than Raffles steals a necklace, pilfers most of the picture. What he leaves is filched by Dame May Whitty (the lady of The Lady Vanishes). Their threefold larcenies make entertainment as pleasant as pointless...