Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fond dream of Playwright George Bernard Shaw, popular adoption of a king-size phonetic alphabet, is finally to get some development and promotion. Though G.B.S. left a tidy sum to his proposed ''alphabet trust," institutional beneficiaries under his will fought against relinquishing a farthing to further Shaw's idea (TIME, March 4); even his old friend Lady Astor dismissed it as "ridiculous." Last week's compromise in court: the public trustee of Shaw's estate announced that a maximum of $23,240 will be set aside for the project. A first prize...
...Alexander Korda, the British movie mogul, signed her to a seven-year, nonexclusive contract. The late great Albert Basserman dragged her off on a tour of Europe to play Gretchen to his Faust. By 1950 she was in a flood tide of some of the weepiest (and most popular) German pictures ever made. This was her Seelchenperiode as a leidender Engel (suffering angel), the shopgirl's ideal, when the Schell smile was as famous in Germany as the Monroe walkaway was in the U.S. Maria and Dieter Borsche, with whom she was starred in Es Kommt Ein Tag, were...
...used this influence to fan in the President a more informed interest in scientific projects. Said a White House aide last week: "Science has never before been given that kind of attention at that level." ¶Ohio Republicans, who thought things would start going their way once they got popular Democrat Frank Lausche out of the statehouse and into the U.S. Senate, are wringing their hands over 1958 prospects. Bumbling G.O.P. Governor C. William O'Neill will probably be challenged in the Republican primary, and if he wins will be a lackluster running mate for U.S. Senator John Bricker...
...year. Protested London's Daily Mirror: "If all views must agree with the BBC (Better Be Careful) censors, nothing worthwhile will ever be said." To Newsman Muggeridge, it seemed as if too much had been said already. Said he: "My career may be finished as far as popular journalism goes-and all because of an article that not five people in this country have read...
Jean Kerr, wife of drama critic Walter Kerr, has written what must be the season's most popular new book, Please Don't Eat The Daisies. It is written in a light, off-hand manner. The saleswoman claimed it was "simply delightful...