Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Love You." On the way to Independence the ex-President took his first crack at being "plain Mr. Truman." Leaving the presidential car Ferdinand Magellan, which Ike had lent him for the occasion, Truman strolled through the train. He popped his head in at the door of a Pullman compartment and seemed delighted when the couple inside failed to recognize him immediately. Said he: "Things are getting back to normal when that happens." Pushing on into a coach car, he told reporters: "This is the first time I have been in a coach in eight years, and in the future...
Diane, he made it plain, gave rich men of many nations the impression that they had red corpuscles as big as tomatoes. He said she was a girl of good family who began bleaching her hair and darkening her reputation in Manhattan two years ago, and then went to Europe with "a wealthy tycoon, a married man." Later, on the Continent, she picked up yet another rich companion and helped him buy champagne all over Europe. While at Deauville, she took up with an Egyptian named Pulley Bey, known then, according to the D.A., as "procurer by appointment...
...next eight days, in scanty clothing and with almost no food, Yeo-Thomas wandered westward across the Saxon plain. Broken by torture, starvation and a chronic case of dysentery, his body somehow kept going, even when his mind was delirious. At last, just as he was about to make contact with the advancing U.S. forces, a German patrol picked him up. Weak as he was, Yeo-Thomas promptly organized another mass escape. One day later he staggered with his companions into an American outpost. "Don't shoot!" he shouted. "Escaping prisoners of war!" Said an American soldier: "Well...
...second the two operators in the room hesitated-Klopp, the hero of the day, is an aggressive man, known for pranks and jokes. But his expression made it plain that he was not joking. His fellow workers ran. White-haired Telegrapher Richard Outlaw grabbed a crippled secretary named Mary Leonardi and pulled her with him. They bawled a warning to people in the concourse as they fled. Meanwhile, at risk of life & limb, Klopp ducked out to the track side of the office and yelled a warning to a crew of car knockers (cleaning women, electricians, etc.). Then the Federal...
British movie critics have always appeared to take a special delight in poking fun-or just plain poking-at Hollywood's product. On occasion, Hollywood has foolishly struck back. One London reviewer, E. Arnot Robertson, was dropped by the BBC after M-G-M charged that her criticisms were "unnecessarily harmful" (TIME, Dec. 13, 1948). Last week the battle was out in the open again...