Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week: "One of three avenues must open before peace can be explored: the government must make a bid-it hasn't yet formally discussed the possibility. The Communists must make a bid-why should they when they're winning? Failing one of these, a third party must offer mediation-what chance is there of such an offer? And yet our situation is very critical...
Last week, at 62, Jam Handy, now a wealthy Detroit producer of industrial films, had a radical amendment to offer. The present continuous kick, said Handy, is too tiring: it gives the legs no chance to "relax, rest and breathe." What Jam Handy proposed was a new stroke that seemed to some swimmers like asking a track man to hop three steps on his right foot, then three steps on his left...
...Alcohol. Women, the researchers found, are much more likely than men to drink merely to be sociable. Pointing out that science does not yet know how to tell the difference between a potential alcoholic and a drinker who can take it or let it alone, the Rutgers sociologists offer a tip to hosts: never insist on anyone's taking a drink; serve soft drinks along with the hard...
Salvador Dali, supersalesman of limp-watch surrealism, honored Madrid with a visit and modern art with an offer of leadership: "My name is Salvador because I am destined to save modern painting from laziness and chaos . . . The world is going through the middle ages, but a renaissance will follow." He would soon be ready to lead that renaissance: "The world's greatest painters were Velasquez and Raphael -every day I feel I am getting closer to them." There was no challenger. Picasso? "Picasso's works are pseudo-decorative and they all look like rugs...
Acme Newspictures tried another tack: it put a price on the baby's head. Acme would pay $2,000, it announced, for the first good exclusive picture. The offer went begging. This week Society Photographer Cecil Beaton went to the palace to take pictures of mother & child. But the world was likely to keep right on waiting until the official pictures were released, probably after this week's christening...