Word: outspokenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Beatrice Ayer Patton, 67, widow of the U.S. Army's late great armor tactician, General George S. Patton Jr.; of injuries suffered in a fall from her horse; in South Hamilton. Mass. Like her husband, Beatrice Patton was an outspoken believer in the strenuous life. She wrote a historical novel (Blood of the Shark), composed band music for her husband's tank units, helped prepare his pep talks to his troops. After Patton's death in 1945, she campaigned for universal military training ("It makes Americans out of all sorts of odds and ends...
...some graduates were doubtful, others were outspoken in their disbelief that an honor system could be effective here. One man spoke of progress: "In the evolutionary scheme of undergraduate bodies, the Princeton gentleman represents the most highly-developed species of gentlemanly characteristics; Harvardians are still at a more rudimentary level of development...
...year after McCulloch became a stringer, he moved into the editor-manager chair of the Nevada State News, a tough, outspoken weekly published in Reno. He continued to report as a stringer for TIME, until he was asked to become a full-time correspondent. McCulloch is now stationed in Los Angeles, a member of TIME'S bureau reporting the news from that part...
...wolves by alternately teasing, tempting and mothering them. The girl and a handsome young architect meet by chance atop the Empire State Building observation tower, and wind up in his apartment. A middle-aged playboy enters the scene. The proceedings are, however, scrupulously moral. The girl is a charmingly outspoken young creature who is adequately armed with her own innocence. The architect is an honorable fellow (he gets the girl to the altar in the end). Even the roue becomes talkative and rueful when it comes right down...
Producers Herbert and Otto Preminger (who also directed) argue that to tone down the original would be to lose the play's outspoken freshness. They point out, further, that the play has run all over the U.S. without raising any moral protests, and that any number of current movies are far more tawdry, sensual and suggestive. The Moon Is Blue controversy may well turn out to be a major test of screen censorship. But whatever the outcome, it appears certain that all the hullabaloo will help The Moon Is Blue wind up in the black at the box office...