Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Affairs cover story in TIME been done without any help from the subject. In the case of Communist leader Eugene Dennis (TIME, April 25), however, it had to be that way. Three weeks before the story was due Researcher Blanche Finn asked Dennis for an interview. He turned the matter over to his publicity man, who asked Miss Finn to submit her questions in writing. She did. The publicity man took one look at the questions, declared they were "too knowing," and refused to give the answers...
Lucrative Target. There was one other point that even Navy airmen found hard to dispute. No matter how successful the supercarrier was, one torpedo spread or a single bomb attack might put it out of action, and the United States would be the fattest target an enemy could wish...
...passengers were sick long before she got under way again. Soon the toilets backed up and floated the luggage. The second day out the lone shower was turned off-there was a water shortage-and nobody had a bath for the rest of the voyage. Nobody, for that matter, bothered to take off his clothing, either...
...matter of (1) size of the glass, (2) amount of foam, and (3) percent of Scotch blood in the bartender. Right now a keg of beer yields between 190 and 220 ten cent glasses. Cronin's uses a nine-ounce glass, one of the largest around here, and settle for 190 per barrel. The Wursthaus, on the other hand, employs an eight-ounce glass, and works every barrel for well over 200 servings...
Almost all the action takes place in the Hotel Bijon, a name singularly appropriate because the proprietress, Madame Rose (Francoise Rosay), herself dabbles in stolen baubles. The Hotel Bijon isn't exactly the Waldorf of Paris--as a matter of fact, its dusty brick walls conceal quite a bit of shady activity. Daytime scenes are taken up with the stolen goods racket. I suspect the Boston censors have flourished their knives at the nighttime scenes, but not so much that the results unduly tax the imagination...