Word: marche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times muffed its last real chance when the Scripps brothers let Editor Bill Townes quit because they were unwilling to back up his robust, crusading news policy (TIME, March 15, 1948). It was the same policy that E. W. ("Lusty") Scripps, grandfather of Ed and Jim, had used to build his chains. Townes had boosted circulation to 47,077; by last week it had slumped back to 40,500, and local advertisers were throwing their busi ness to the rival News-Tribune, the city's only other daily (circ...
...Riviera had been rocked by U.S. jazz when Louis Armstrong and his cats took over at Nice's Jazz Festival a year ago (TIME, March 8, 1948). Last week, in Cannes' red plush little Casino theater, the gold plush Riviera set got to hear what longer-haired U.S. musicians were...
Unemployment, after reaching a peak of 3,221,000 in mid-February, had eased slightly. In March, the U.S. Department of Commerce reported, employment had increased by 479,000, mostly on farms. (Since newcomers had entered the labor force, the drop in unemployment was only 54,000.) Another bright sign came from General Motors. Demand for its cars was still so big that, with steel in better supply, G.M. last week stepped up production by shifting key departments to a 54-hour week (v. 40 hours before), with a 30% increase in take-home pay for the workers affected...
...bought up the talents of Champion's young (34) Director Mark Robson (who, like Douglas, will continue to do one picture a year for Screen Plays). Aggressive little Screen Plays' next: Home of the Brave, the first of the new Hollywood cycle on the Negro problem (TIME, March...
Devil in the Flesh. A moving, French-made look at the pleasures and perils of adolescent love; with Gerard Philipe and Micheline Presley. (TIME, March...