Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daughter. He escorted me up one echelon where a somewhat more pleasant official said I could have 15 days to get out of the country. When I once more asked why, he shuffled through my dossier, looked up and naively said: 'I'm not supposed to tell...
Chairman Charles Kersten of Wisconsin tried to familiarize him with the general idea by reading from Stalin's Problems of Leninism. "I'm afraid you're trying to indoctrinate me," Fitzgerald broke...
...Mérimée and Bizet made Carmen a classic, but Columbia is bent on making it literally a household word. Thanks to a staggering variety of studio tie-up deals with manufacturers of assorted items, the nation may soon be trying vainly to comb Carmen out of its hair. Already on the Carmen bandwagon as it begins to roll through retailers' showcases and advertising columns from coast to coast: shoes, handbags, cigarettes, hosiery, soap, cosmetics, hats, scarves, hair ornaments, castanets, costume jewelry. An impressive seller in its own right is the "Carmen doll" ($6.98); through...
Arthur Murray has been persuaded to teach the "Carmen Flamenco"; Novelist Sophie Kerr has ground out a 30-part serialization of the movie that the N.E.A. syndicate will offer to some 600 newspapers; Pocket Books, Inc. has issued a 25? edition of the Mérimée novel, plugging the movie on the cover; John Powers has selected a Carmen-type model; Manhattan Psychiatrist Dr. Frederic Wertham has put Carmen on the couch for a psychoanalytical study and has concluded: "The world is full of Carmens...
...Smith: 'I'm so sorry ... I thought it was out . . . But what did you think, Brown...