Word: posers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around London's Fleet Street last week went a story of how the Soviet government wished to commemorate Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. They opened a competition for Soviet sculptors to submit designs for a memorial. Most efforts depicted the com poser seated at a piano or working on a score. The winning design: a twelve-foot-high bronze figure of Stalin, listening - to the music of Tchaikovsky...
...Democratic/Republican Administration, pick one, five minutes. I wasn't permitted to argue the Advantages of Changing Horses in Midstream, with Special Reference to Your Reading of the Past Four Years. I wasn't able to answer, in a series of well-executed, concise, X's, the biggest poser of them all: Truman or Dewey...
...American Tobacco Co., which he headed for 20 years, the late George Washington (Lucky Strike) Hill left some famous slogans and a poser: How would the company do without his lurid, armor-piercing salesmanship? Part of the solution was left to George Washington Hill Jr., whose loud advertis ing talents were learned from his father...
...When Harvard Came of Age" steals the issue. Norman S. Poser has spun the several threads of Cambridge life during President Eliot's early reign into a completely readable yarn. The perfect compound of serious aspects, such as Eliot's introduction of the professor's name into the course booklet, with light strokes from the local color of the day makes it tops for its kind. If the description of the hazers' "Bloody Monday" doesn't amuse, the tales of erstwhile room decor surely will...
...feed a baby on Baffin Island is different from that of a mother in Ontario. Since the Eskimo boy early learns to stalk his meals he needs a rifle, but the Government says no rifles can go to children under ten. Last week the council was faced with a poser: some Eskimos wanted to pool their allowances to buy a boat -to help get food for their children. The council was not sure. It put the question over, to see if the money could not be raised elsewhere...