Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reiterated what had been the key-note of the day--the Negro vote--in view of tomorrow's primary for municipal officers, including School Committee posts, and the coming Nov. 5 elections...
...approach to a movie is a study in agonizing intensity. Seated in the darkened theater, he holds on his lap a stenographer's note pad and jots down scribbles that look to anyone else like a kind of obscure Sanskrit patois. The picture itself is only part of his research. He wants every piece of material extant about the film-the original book, biographies of the performers, reports from correspondents on the making and makers of the picture, even handouts. Thus, when he wondered how some Japanese film makers got the effect of blood gushing from a samurai victim...
Untermeyer journeyed to Boston to see him in the hospital the day before he died. "We talked for over an hour," he writes in a final affectionate note. "Robert did most of the talking...
When a scruffy, red-haired kid of 15 left town 35 years ago, no one took much note, but last week 35,000 lined the streets of Vincennes, Ind. (pop. 18,000), to honor the return of "Comedian, Philanthropist, Hoosier" Red Skelton, 50. There was an honorary degree from Vincennes University, a distinguished citizenship award and, best of all, a $1,800,000 bridge over the Wabash named for him. "All right, everybody off my bridge," cried a delighted Red at the dedication. He had learned to swim in the Wabash, he said, "and boy, it was stuffy in that...
Recognizing the need for a bigger note, the government has just issued the first batch of 5,000-cruzejro bills - a relief to U.S. visitors, who find their pockets stuffed with string-tied wads of 500-and 1,000-cruzeiro bills. One effect of the new bills was to send the sinking cruzeiro into another downspin, from 850 per dollar to more than 900. " The new 5,000-cruzeiro notes," said a harried Rio exchange-currency broker last week, "are already obsolete." He is so right. Before the Brazilian Congress is a new proposal to authorize 10,000-cruzeiro bills...