Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Religious Revival. Nevertheless, Sir Stafford Cripps last week frostily informed Britons that "basic" would not be restored. "Politically it would be far easier and much more pleasant to give way to the clamor and reintroduce some basic ration," he said, "but it would from the point of view of the whole population of this country be quite definitely wrong. . . . There are no indications at present that basic may come back this year...
Lana Turner, just back from a much-publicized vacation with Café Sportsman Bob Topping, was suspended by MGM. Her sin: she had refused to play Dumas' seductive villainess, Milady de Winter, in The Three Musketeers. Nevertheless, grumbled the studio, she had drawn a $25,000 advance on her salary for the vacation. Gossipist Louella Parsons predicted that husky-voiced Lana would be back in harness in 24 hours; but 72 hours later she was still on vacation...
...Mediterranean is not the most important area in the conflict between the West and Russia; it ranks after Germany (where the U.S. and Britain are gaining ground) and after China (where Communist success continues). Nevertheless, last week's big power news focused sharply on the Mediterranean; Russia's instruments were probing more & more aggressively for weaknesses in the West's position...
...company of elderly ladies in waiting. His favorite dish is still lobster in brandy sauce, and he still wolfs his food. (At royal dinner parties he leaves his harassed guests time for barely one helping.) His physician, who plays the lute, declares that the King is in excellent health. Nevertheless, at 89, Gustaf...
...Nevertheless, there was hope that things were not so dark as Hollywood thought. Last week Britain was still trying to work out a deal to modify the effects of the tax, lest it wreck Britain's own theater business and seriously weaken Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank's empire just when he has a chance to earn some badly needed dollars (TIME, Dec. 21). And no matter how Hollywood feared the bark of pressure groups, the bite had not yet proved painful. Among the two big moneymakers of 1947, according to Variety, were David O. Selznick's Duel...