Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firms rated AA1 by Dun & Bradstreet, 2) directors of the biggest 750 U. S. corporations (which own 52% of all corporate assets), 3) all businessmen whose salaries indicated clearly that they play an important part in management. The third installment of this Forum was the most detailed self-portrait for which U. S. business opinion has yet sat, revealed how it feels about: 1) New Deal policies, 2) price fixing, 3) defense and recovery. Findings...
...Harvard in Portrait," a yearly calendar featuring prize-winning photographs of University life and buildings, will make its debut within the next ten days, it was announced last night by its publisher, Oliver Statler...
...Oliver Wiswell he dictated 2,500,000 words. They were taken down by his secretary-niece, dark-eyed Marjorie Mosser. Niece Mosser looks like the portrait of Grandmother Tibbets that hangs in the Rocky Pasture living room. When she came to work for him, Roberts warned her, "Before I'm through with a book, you'll think I'm the worst stinker that ever lived. But you'll never be fired." She has lived through three books, Trending into Maine, March to Quebec and Wiswell, has also (at Gourmet Roberts' suggestion) written...
...Manhattan show, Artist Martin had a slick portrait, some moody nudes, done in cool tones which nevertheless pulsed with life. In Tomorrow and Tomorrow, a big-thighed prostitute stood in her doorway, looking dejectedly out at the future. Temptation in Tonopah showed a tough-looking croupier, a composite of all the gambling-house characters in the capacious memory of Painter Martin, who is good at crap shooting. Out at Home, a baseball scene, one of the best in the show, was an adroit pattern of such vitality that it seemed to arrest action better than a 1,000th...
...moviedom. It carries the technique of suspense beyond the stage of "Foreign Correspondent." Hitchcock's suspense is inherently melodramatic, whereas John Ford's is self-contained atmosphere, bovering over a plot of merely secondary importance. The subject of "The Long Voyage Home" is mainly an impression, a dismal portrait of futility...