Word: marche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mesta, well-heeled oil and machine-tool heiress (TIME, March 14), raised Democratic campaign funds and stuck by Harry Truman last year when the canapes were scarce in Democratic circles. But she really hadn't expected any reward, she said, "not one single thing." "It would be a lot easier to stay in Washington and I'd have a lot more fun," she told a columnist. "But I think this post is an advancement for women and I ought to accept...
...Little Judy relaxed. Her defense rested on this story: her pocketbook happened to be crammed with FBI secret papers on March 4, when she was arrested in New York, because she was going to study them for a civil service examination; some of the papers were her own notes for a novel she was going to write; she had made the tryst that winter night with Valentin Gubichev, Russian engineer employee of U.N., because she was in love with him and not for any purposes of espionage. Kelley questioned her about a previous meeting she had had with Gubichev...
...Slovakia, monasteries were forcibly cleared out and the priests and nuns taken away in trucks . . . The meeting of bishops at Dolny Smokovec [last March], which was to have taken a stand on the demands of the government, was broken up when listening devices were discovered in the conference room . . . The latest conference of bishops in Prague was disrupted by security police...
...Like watching the March hare playing tricks on an indulgent mad hatter," said the Manchester Guardian of Harpo & Chico Marx, now appearing on the London stage (Groucho was at home). The London Times burbled: "What makes these great clowns is this combination of fun and fantasy with something else, a mixture of worldly wisdom and naïveté, of experience but also of an innocence never altogether lost, of dignity and absurdity together, so that for a moment we love and we applaud mankind...
...show was the climax of a contest sponsored by Kansas City's Hall Brothers, Inc. (Hallmark cards), and designed to tap French talent for next year's batch of U.S. Christmas cards (TIME, March 21). Le Plan Hallmark, as the French immediately dubbed it, had drawn snorts & sneers from French Communists, 5,121 entries from the painters...