Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berkleys of Broadway. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers still make an engaging dance team (TIME, April...
...Five"-Loew's Inc., 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. and Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.-decided to continue fighting Justice's antimonopoly suit. Although they knew they would probably have to yield in the end, the longer they could stave off the splitup the more money they might make from continuing to show their own pictures in their own chain theaters...
Last week a federal statutory court in New York shaved their borrowed time a little more closely. The court told the three companies that they could make and distribute pictures or exhibit them, but not both at the same time. Even so, an appeal to the Supreme Court might still stave off the final divorce decree for as long as four years...
...Faolain, a Roman Catholic, is at his best in explaining the relationship between church and people. Under James I, he says, the persecution of Catholicism in Ireland began to make the priest a personification of nationalist resistance to England. This was intensified by such acts as Cromwell's edict that "any man who wanted to earn ?5 need but produce the head of a wolf or of a priest, it did not matter which." Hence, says O'Faolain, the attachment of the people to the clergy...
...Faolain's picture of modern Ireland, which he thinks is a good place to live, is far from the notions of the ould sod and the emerald isle which many Americans cherish. He sees a nation of peasants-become-freeholders, a nation slowly learning how to make the best of its position "at the end of the queue" of Europe. For the present, however, he strikes a balance: " [We] have no nightingales, but also have no serpents; no moles, also no ballet; no Communist intelligentsia, but also no Catholic intelligentsia...