Word: marked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Violence, a screenplay bought by Warner Bros, for $1,600 and sold to the late Mark Hellinger for $75,000, was sold by the Hellinger estate...
Bernard De Voto, 51, Harper's columnist and literary historian (Mark Twain's America, Minority Report), won appointment to the Department of the Interior's Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings and Monuments...
Some information is more assimilable than other information. Facts, as Mark Twain noted, can be presented in such a way that they merely create "confusion of the mind and congestion of the ducts of thought." The reader's digestion of news will never be "effortless." TIME, however, tries to sift, sort, condense and explain the news by this simple standard: How much effort can an ordinarily educated and intelligent man or woman be expected to use in understanding this story? It's no use saying that 80 million Americans ought to have a thorough grasp of physics...
...Lent. On Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, a woman and a little girl were stopped by the traffic at a cross street. On the opposite curb stood a young man with an Ash Wednesday mark on his forehead. "Look," said the little girl. "Mustn't point," said the woman. "But mother," asked the little girl, "why has he got that black mark on his forehead?" "Hush," said her mother. "It's something they do in church, I think...
After the first two days, the halfway mark, Kehoe's greys had won seven fights without losing one. Their owner chortled gleefully from his wheel chair: "The way they're dropping you'd think I was using a shotgun on them." A man from Tennessee, allowing that Kehoe was right, said to a man from North Carolina: "There's something that old man's got onto...