Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good for a one-day splash on U.S. front pages. Repatriated Americans on the Gripsholm had brought back most of the story to the U.S. in 1943, it had been published at least three times in the Japanese press since the war, and nine months ago the U.S. magazine Plain Talk carried it in full...
What made the story headline news in the U.S. was that MacArthur's G2, Major General Charles A. Willoughby, whose staff prepared the report, had included (as had Plain Talk) the names of two old workhorse propagandists for a Communist China. They are U.S. Journalist Agnes Smedley, who does most of her writing for leftish U.S. publications, and German-born Foreign Correspondent Guenther Stein, a British subject, who has written for the Christian Science Monitor. Willoughby's report charged that both were spies in the Sorge net, but it did not document the charge and both hotly denied...
LoPresti also made plain his views on penology. "Everybody seems to agree that the institution there (Framingham) is in an awful mess. But, they all add,what can you do about it?" he complained. He had opposed Dr. Van Waters' methods "in legislative hearings and from the floor of the Senate," but "no previous Commissioner has dared to differ with Dr. Van Waters. Even members of the legislature kowtow to her." LePresti's interest in Framingham was hardly limited to an investigation of the suicide. He felt that the Reformatory was a sinkhole of immorality and favoritism...
...Hollywood's depression (TIME, Dec. 27), and are pointing out instead how well dividends and box-office returns have been holding up. British film bigwigs like J. Arthur Rank and Sir Alexander Korda are also trying to make light of their economic ills, but it has become uncomfortably plain that a major crisis is gripping the industry that turned out such thriving exports as Hamlet and The Red Shoes...
Professor Raphael Demos, who suffered a heart attack on January 29, is expected to leave the Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plain, in a month's time, and to resume his teaching duties in the Philosophy Department sometime during the spring. His thrombosis is a very mild one and he is in better condition than was earlier reported...