Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reopened this year, the Fine Arts theatre, nestling in the shadow of Loew's State, the Christian Science Monitor building, and Mass. Avenue station, gives to Boston in small quantities what New Yorkers can find in a number of spots. So far it has limited itself to foreign films; through tomorrow, it is presenting what amounts to a telling comparison between a good foreign picture and a good American picture...
Asked the Christian Science Monitor's Mary Hornaday: "I have been asked to inquire whether you consider it a justifiable gift?" Replied Mrs. Roosevelt: "It was given to me to popularize that particular brand of mink. The gentlemen who presented it asked me to keep it, and I thought it would be ungracious to turn around and give it away...
...critics, offered Cincinnati a charming, flowing figure-piece: Jon Corbino's The Family. Connoisseur Cortissoz, erstwhile art crony of the J. P. Morgans, father & son, will tolerate no such modernistic nonsense as distorted proportions and experiments with the abstract. CJ Calm, fortyish Dorothy Adlow of the Christian Science Monitor picked a gaunt, naked vision, Ezekiel, a Biblical allegory (Ezekiel 37:3-Son of man, can these bones live?), by 29-year-old Bostonian Nathaniel Jacobson...
...Health" column. His book, The Human Body, sold almost 500,000 copies. He scoffed at nostrums for lengthening life: "Nothing anybody does to himself after he is born makes more than a few hours' difference. . . ." So he was all for turning diet over to that "very efficient monitor-the appetite." He once shocked the dry state of Kansas, where he taught medicine, by declaring that what the country needed was a good 5? shot of whiskey...
...Christian Science Monitor's smart little Roscoe Drummond fished for information on the Big Three Conference, and was told that his question was highly speculative. He cracked back: "I'd like to eliminate the speculation, sir, and get to the highest source." The President chuckled. So, he said, would...