Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chambers' cache of stolen documents was brought to light in two sections. On Nov. 17, while giving a deposition in the libel suit in Bal'-tirn,ore, he presented 47 exhibits (consisting of 65 sheets of paper). Of these, 43 were typewritten copies of State Department dispatches; four were handwritten memoranda (three in the handwriting of Alger Hiss-see cut-a fact which Hiss has not denied, though he denied giving them to Chambers). The "pumpkin papers" are the second part of the cache. This consisted of three metal capsules containing five rolls of microfilm, of which...
...hour passed; at exactly 6 o'clock the black limousine slipped up to the canopy again. The door of Blair House opened and Madame Chiang and Mrs. Marshall stood framed in the rectangle of light. As they started down the steps, Madame Chi ang called: "Please don't shoot the flash. I can't see the steps...
...stand for God, Church and my country," he said. "When compared to the sufferings of my country, my own fate is unimportant ... I am not accusing my accusers. If, from time to time, I must cast a light upon conditions, it is only a revelation of my country's surging pain ... I pray for the world of justice and brotherly love; I pray for those who, in the words of my Master, know not what they are doing. I forgive them with all my heart...
Billy Rose, kinetic little man about Broadway, did a double take. After the first-night performance of Light Up the Sky (TIME, Nov. 29), he had admitted in print that it was "fast" and "funny." But a couple of Moss Hart's cast of caricatures bore a striking resemblance to Billy and wife Eleanor Holm; Billy simmered for a few days, then went back for a second look. This time, he reported with satisfaction, the capacity audience wasn't finding nearly so much to laugh at. "Opening night yaks were being greeted by yawns." Billy's diagnosis...
...same time more natural . . . Painting a picture is like fighting a battle ... If you need something to occupy your leisure, to divert your mind from the daily round . . . there is close at hand a wonderful new world of thought and craft, a sunlit garden gleaming with light and colour...