Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Karl Mundt is a man who believes in the power of speech and the written word. He had been a schoolteacher for twelve years, gave it up for the wider audience of politics. As an articulate member of Kiwanis, Masons, Shriners, Elks, Odd Fellows, and the House of Representatives (since 1939), he has never been frightened by a rostrum. He is president of the National Forensic League. He has written for Outdoor America, the Country Gentleman, Conservation, Education and Successful Farming. He writes a monthly column about Washington for the Republican magazine. The war convinced him that...
With scientists spread over the South Pacific, the Harvard group will concentrate on Yap, generally reckoned to be the toughest assignment of the survey. A sharp decline in population and the odd customs of a people about whom little is known will be particular objects of the investigation...
...Odd Man Out. James Mason in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama (TIME, March...
Last year the gong rang in some impressive film achievements. Two British films (Henry V and Brief Encounter) were voted among the year's best movies by Manhattan critics. Last week nine other Rank pictures (Odd Man Out, Stairway to Heaven, etc.) were holding down Manhattan cinemansions. And next week Rank's Great Expectations is scheduled to open in Manhattan's massive Radio City Music Hall-the movie world's equivalent of a White House reception for an immigrant...
...most of the fine films have been made-by a small group of artists, "The Independents." There are four sets of Independents: The Archers, the Cineguild, Individual Productions, and Wessex Productions. Two Cities Films, Ltd. and occasional guest artists such as Laurence Olivier, Gabriel Pascal or Carol Reed (Odd Man Out) also do fine work...