Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blackie Boone, his wife-"ask anybody in Fillmore about her." The portraits have the hard authenticity of those notices that are put up in post offices of people who are wanted for murder. And the characters seem like suspects in Author Gibbons' police lineup, blinking in the limelight, not quite sure of what they are charged with...
Cast into sudden limelight by Soviet Russia's 10 to 1 deflation of the ruble, tonight's Law School Forum will ask "What Shall We Do About The High Cost of Living?" Scheduled for Rindge Tech Auditorium at 8 o'clock, the Forum will feature Senator Homer Capehart (R-Ind.) and Leon Keyserling...
...Robinson Jeffers; produced by Robert Whitehead & Oliver Rea) seemed to many first-nighters last week what it seemed to Macaulay a hundred years ago-Euripides' greatest play. To be sure, Euripides didn't have much to do with last week's enthusiasm. More in the limelight was Poet Robinson Jeffers for his quite free, sometimes florid, but generally effective adaptation. Still more in the limelight was John Gielgud for his skillful staging (though not for his performance as Jason). Most in the limelight was Judith Anderson for her really tremendous performance in the title role...
...Poland's. When Poland's seat became vacant, the U.S. and the Latin American republics decided to support Czechoslovakia, which in foreign policy is 99.44% Russian controlled. The Czechs, however, figured that they could keep their 00.56% of independence better by staying out of the limelight. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk campaigned against himself in Lake Success lobbies...
...Sulh was still shaving, the Mufti turned up at his house. Told that the Mufti was in his garden, the Premier snorted unbelievingly: "Stuff and nonsense." But there he was. Lebanon tightened up security measures accordingly, turned back Jewish travelers at the frontier. The Mufti was back in the limelight of gestures and intrigue. He sent a cryptic message to Jerusalem Arabs: "I hope to be seeing you soon...