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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, it began to look as if Harold Medina might soon be delivered from the trial, which had been a lot tougher on him than on the accused. Defense attorneys, having about run through their list of key witnesses, began reading the deposition of William Z. Foster, national chairman of the Communist Party, who was too ill to appear in person...
...week later he entered the hall of the Supreme Soviet (parliament) at Stalin's right hand. He was next-and last-seen on May Day, when the Soviet mighty assembled atop Lenin's tomb. Early in July, Molotov was listed as a signer of the euphuistic vale to the departed Georgi Dimitrov. But he was there only in the printed list; his cannonball head was nowhere visible in the official photos...
...Hope, according to Gallup pollsters, is the U.S. public's favorite all-round funnyman-just ahead of Milton Berle and Jack Benny. Last on the list of 15: Charlie Chaplin...
...gambling, the Atlanta Journal (circ. 246,000) last week printed the names and addresses of 1,500 owners and operators of slot machines, which are illegal in Georgia. The Journal got the names by checking on who had paid the federal stamp tax on the machines. High on the list was Atlanta's Capital City Club. President of the Capital City Club: George C. Biggers. President of the Atlanta Journal: George C. Biggers...
...tenor with the spry, nonsensical air of a chipmunk and an Americanized-Caruso voice which gives style and seriousness to the whole production. His least appealing quality, which Metro will apparently exploit for some ten musicals, is the smily, complacent bounce which places him in Hollywood's long list of boys who rouse the maternal instinct...