Word: markedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nick" Nichols has been a hotshot ever since he went into the business. At 25, he was editor of Screen Guide; at 27, he ran Click up from a big circulation slump to the million mark. (Later, after Nichols joined the Army, Click went bust.) At Dell Publishing Co., Nichols has boosted Modern Screen to a peak circulation (1,164,476) and a peak revenue...
...powdered cow manure. It developed into a new kind of city-a sprawling confederacy of villages, with five branch city halls and 932 identifiable neighborhoods, in which life is dedicated to the sun, the lawn sprinkler and the backyard grill, and in which the swimming pool is the mark of success and distinction...
...month, Western officials cautiously started to let some money pour into West Germany's economic pool. The Bank Deutscher Länder relaxed credit restrictions by lowering the rediscount rate for its member banks. West Germany's economic boss, Dr. Ludwig Erhard, announced an 8½-billion-mark investment program for the coming fiscal year...
...Director Mark Robson, who made the picture for RKO shortly before rocketing into the limelight with Champion (TIME, April 11), imprinted it with several signs of his fresh style. For one thing, there is an intelligent use of sound. Small, natural noises-the clop of hooves and the rattle of stones under the wagon wheels-take on weight and value. Spots of unbroken silence have the quality of noonday sunlight on an empty plain. Other refreshing and honest touches: the homely treatment of four frontier chippies (including Gloria Grahame); the persuasively intimate feel of the western countryside; the sensitive cinematic...
...Patton and Stanfield again ran like a team to the halfway mark, where Patton went into his relaxed "float" and won by two strides in 20.4 (equaling Ralph Metcalfe's 16-year-old N.C.A.A. record). Said Stanfield afterwards: "I figured I'd stay with him, then coast . . . then I had to run like hell to catch up as close as I did." Patton, the tension over, was out of sight as usual, racked and retching with violent nausea. With the help of his two victories, U.S.C. breezed off with the team championship. The score: Southern...