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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yet Aufbau, says Manfred George, has "never stressed the concept of collective guilt for Germany." This policy has paid off in cordial relations with the German government. In 1951 Theodor Heuss, President of West Germany, gave Aufbau an exclusive on the decision of the West German government to pay restitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Refugee's Best Friend | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

On TV guest shots. Comic George Jessel has a knack for veering the conversation to Bulova watches. While palavering with Jack Paar before millions of viewers not long ago, Georgie went on and on about his watch, a Bulova. When being Person to Personed by Ed Murrow, Jessel lovingly showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Block That Schlock | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Such plugs, even when they grow out of genuine comedy, bring payoffs (sometimes known as payola) of varying kinds; the My Sin plug reportedly was worth more than $1,000. Sometimes the payoff goes to the performers, but usually to writers or other employees of a show. Last week the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Block That Schlock | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

¶ 1) Julie Harris as Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (NBC). In the semi-modern classic that for years was regarded as a ringing plea for woman's emancipation, she was superb as the child-wife who is treated as a mindless, soulless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Top of the Week | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

With these restrictions in mind, a horde of tipped-off tabloid photographers descended on Club 84 and Father Gussoni, who panicked and fled. Trailed by the flashbulb boys to another nightspot, Gussoni and his friends sent out a waiter "disguised" as the priest to lead them off the scent, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Priest on Via Veneto | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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