Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council, created last winter by Britain, France and the Benelux countries, is headed by a Committee of Ministers (the Foreign Ministers of the ten founding nations) on which each member votes according to his nation's policy. The Consultative Assembly, however, is a revolutionary departure: its 87 members* represent political groups inside their countries (excluding Communists), are supposed to act as Europeans; thus, a Winston Churchill could team up with the champions of capitalist democracy from other countries, a Herbert Morrison with Socialists. But the Consultative Assembly's agenda is controlled by the Committee of Ministers. The limitation...
...Salesman at the Phoenix,* which like most London theaters is not air-conditioned, gentlemen sweltered in their heavy dinner jackets, martyrs to the myth that London never really gets hot. In the House of Commons, the Serjeant at Arms permitted newsmen to remove their jackets (although honorable member's had to retain their coats and ties). To Playwright William Douglas Home Princess Margaret granted the privilege of dining with her at a London nightclub in his shirtsleeves. It was hot in other places than England. In West Germany, where the thermometer hovered around 95°, businessmen rebelled against...
Affirmative No. But the ban on "hard" liquor was one rule radio had never broken. In 1939 the 17th Annual Convention of the National Association of Broadcasters had even written it into its official standards of practice: "Member stations shall not accept for advertising [any] spiritous or 'hard' liquor." True to their pledge, the networks said no to Schenley. But their refusal somehow sounded as if they wished they could...
...year-round theater in Beverly Hills. Former RKO Chief Peter Rathvon heads the company; its other officers are Peck, Ferrer, Rosalind Russell and Producer Jerry Wald. The project calls for the production of six plays a year for a run of at least six weeks each, with every member of a star-cluttered board of directors already agreed to appear every season...
Last year the opera had finished with a $119,000 deficit. "Without Flagstad," said an opera board member, "we might lose...