Word: mall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fredericks, 41, a World War II veteran, to design a suitable statue to adorn a fountain on Cleveland's Mall...
Champion (Screen Plays, Inc.; United Artists) is a full-length portrait of a middleweight heel. Based on a hard-bitten short story by the late Ring Lardner, it is a brilliant example of the kind of punch a mall studio can pack, if it has an intelligent script and a smart director. To get by the Johnston Office, Scripter "Carl Foreman made his hero, Midge Kelly Kirk Douglas), a shade gentler than Lardner's original. The movie Midge, for instance, does not paste his dear old mother in the jaw. Otherwise he is just about as unlovely a piece...
...nothing but a bloody schmozzle," growled a British union leader as he wiped his sweating neck and swigged a pint of beer. "A damnable piece of impertinence -Cripps at his blasted governessing again," said an industrialist, sipping his Pimm's No. 1 on the terrace of Pall Mall's Royal Automobile Club. In London last week there was thunder from both left and right when Britain's economic boss, Sir Stafford Cripps, announced that he had asked for American advice on how to increase British production...
...British War Office was taking no chances last week. As thousands of sightseers milled about the Mall and the Horse Guards Parade for the first postwar full-dress Trooping the Color in honor of the King's official birthday,* the War Office called off the show. A curt official announcement blamed the weather. But the crowds stared suspiciously at the bright sun. What was up? Rumors whipped round that King George was flat on his back, .that Queen Mary was dead, that Princess Elizabeth had had a miscarriage, or that somebody had planted a bomb...
Robbins calculations put the final figure at $15,033, of which $12,553 was donated by the College alone. "Despite the fact that we extended the drive for four days to give mall solicitations a chance to reach us, only four percent of the 6,000 graduate students and faculty members have even bothered to answer the appeal," Robbins explained...