Word: newsreel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warfare . . . America's gifts are false gifts . . . Americans Go Home." As evidence of American "sex madness," students in Bombay produced fake pictures of coeds being stripped by American college boys -a farfetched reference to the spring fever "panty raids" of 1952. In Poona the students had been shown newsreel films of U.S. infantrymen threatening a parade of workers, but, as Redding quickly pointed out, it was 20 years out of date. The workers were the bonus marchers who descended on Washington...
...case-and the headlines. Thorne had made one will leaving everything to his mother. But a second will, made nine days before his death, bequeathed most of the money to pretty Maureen Ragen and her mother, Mrs. Aleen Ragen. Day after day, Coroner McCarron called before the television newsreel cameras the weeping women who loved Thorne-and now seek his inheritance-to cast suspicion on each other...
...picture tells simply-with the help of yellowed snapshots, newsreel footage and the narrative voice of Katharine Cornell-the well-known story of how at the age of 19 months Helen lost sight and hearing from a childhood illness. At the age of seven she "began to live" when Anne Mansfield Sullivan, a trained teacher of the deaf and blind, came to work with...
...Meanwhile, this TV commentator produced a devastating indictment of the Senator in a show largely made up of newsreel clips of McCarthy in action...
Such a greeting was a welcome change for sober-sided Mario Scelba, whose public appearances in the recent past-and his face on newsreel screens-have more often been greeted by Communist-led hisses than by cheers. At the end of his first two months in office, Italy was beginning to feel different about the quiet but resolute onetime Interior Minister now its Prime Minister. The nation as a whole showed no likelihood as yet of echoing the enthusiasm of Caltagirone, but it was beginning to nod in pleased approval at the vigor and efficiency he has injected into...