Word: longs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women. Yet the weekly German-language Aufbau (Reconstruction) is one of the biggest (circ. 30,129) and most influential foreign-language papers in the U.S. Edited by stocky, effervescent Dr. (of Law) Manfred George, 66, Aufbau is an outstanding example of a paper that has bucked a 50-year-long decline in the U.S. foreign-language press.* This week, as it celebrates its 25th anniversary with a Waldorf dinner, Aufbau can and does trace its success directly to the fact that in the desperate days of Nazi Germany, it was the voice of help and hope for thousands of Jewish...
Arriving in Warsaw in June 1958, quiet, spectacled Abe Rosenthal faithfully reported the effects of the Wladyslaw Gomulka regime's relaxation of the Stalinist-type controls that had long choked Poland's political, economic and cultural growth. But when, beginning with a food crisis in October, Gomulka began tightening the economic screws again, Rosenthal reported that trend with equal accuracy. Filing stories that the heavily censored Polish press dared not print, Rosenthal disclosed that the Soviet Union was sending meat to Poland to meet the food shortage. He wrote a complete account of the denunciation by the Soviet...
...guest shots. Comic George Jessel has a knack for veering the conversation to Bulova watches. While palavering with Jack Paar before millions of viewers not long ago, Georgie went on and on about his watch, a Bulova. When being Person to Personed by Ed Murrow, Jessel lovingly showed off five clocks in his house; all five were gifts from Bulova. (Genial Georgie insists neither mention was intended as a plug...
...high-Trendexed show. A Hollywood public-relations agency spreads word that for $500 it can get plugs into the scripts of one of the half-dozen most popular TV comedians. One Beverly Hills agency that specializes in placing plugs, Fishell & Associates, sends out to writers and producers a long list of "clients" that pay it for arranging a mention. Among them: Howard Johnson, Betty Crocker, Western Union, Wheaties, Diners' Club, Gallo wines, Playtex girdles...
...Alec Guinness in The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Decks (NBC). Not long ago Guinness, perhaps best remembered, for his role as the dubious bank clerk in The Lavender Hill Mob, declared: "I have an absolutely unalterable rule-no more roles about a dubious bank clerk." For his TV debut, he played just such a clerk, who dubiously plots to avenge 22 years of thankless labor by humiliating the bank's brass. His scheme: instead of swiping the bank's funds, he adds his own money to them, creates total bookkeeping chaos, and rapidly advances toward the presidency when...