Word: mili
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would boss the bosses next? An "executive editorial board" will try, with six $1-a-month members (John Hersey, Clifton Fadiman, Annalee Jacoby, J. D. Ratcliff, Gjon Mili, George Biddle). Over them will be a paid editor named Lawrence Lee, promoted from '47's literary editor. In theory, he can veto the board's decisions...
...only a year ago, lost out with their fiasco in Azerbaijan, Iran. Now Russia has raised the ante by threatening Greece and Turkey. Last week, President Truman dealt in the U.S. - in a diplomatic way -by asking for a $400,000,000 loan to Greece and Turkey, accompanied by mili tary advisers and weapons (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The loud talk was all of Greece and Turkey, but the whispers be hind the talk were of the ocean of oil to the south...
Soon the letterhead of the A.M.C. boasted such names as John Steinbeck, Clifton Fadiman, Walter Lippmann, John Hersey, Howard Lindsay, George Biddle, Christopher LaFarge, John Dos Passos, Margaret Culkin Banning, Robert St. John, Gregory d'Alessio, Gjon Mili. The first stock issue ($100,000) was sold out in eight weeks; a second (for $160,000) will be floated this week, and 20% of it is already spoken...
...each day (except Saturdays) Isaiah's words issued forth from a mobile Palestine "resistance" radio. Last week Jerusalem had no peace. Armored cars raced up its hills, troops armed to the teeth patrolled its narrow streets, days & nights were loud with the rumble of mili tary convoys...
...film was made by LIFE'S famed fast-action photographer, Gjon Mili. Last summer he assembled some of the artists, Negroes all (save Barney Kessel),* who were playing Los Angeles, got them jamming on a Warner sound stage. Result: two numbers (On the Sunny Side of the Street and Jam Session) which, if not the best that hot players can do, are pretty certainly the most honest, down-to-earth popular music yet recorded for the screen...