Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flying Fortress. This 45-minute picture reports the Belle's 25th mission over Germany, which retired her crew to the U.S. The film is chiefly the work of Lieut. Colonel William Wyler, whose last film as a civilian was Mrs. Miniver, a shrewd but somewhat plushy war poster. There is no plush about Memphis Belle. It is one of the few genuinely exciting U.S. documentaries...
...Methodist Church last week took the first step in a big project. From the Church's Manhattan headquarters went copies of a poster (see cut) painted by famed artist Howard Chandler Christy (Artist Christy is a Christian Scientist; his wife is a Methodist), which will eventually go up in the 42,000 U.S. Methodist churches. The poster summons members to participate in the Methodist Church's forthcoming Crusade for a New World...
...pacifists-and the whole U.S. was rapidly turning pacifist, or at least antiwar-emasculated it. They wanted no Army. They thought that war could be stopped. Their propaganda appealed to a war-sick nation. That propaganda was still going strong in 1940. "World Peace-ways Inc." spread its poster ads through the U.S. press: pictures of a maimed veteran captioned "Hello, Sucker," of a chemist bending over a fiendish brew...
...food the farmer's busy wife served in his malodorous one-room house (where she also removed the grease from wool with urine) "would cause a riot in any modern penitentiary," and the antique collector's prized four-poster bed originated as a cubicle to shield man & wife from the curiosity of their growing children...
...store clerk in the village of Kukarka. At a sacrifice, the family sent him to gymnasia (high school) in nearby Kazan, to college in distant Petrograd. There the backwash of the bloody revolution of 1905 hit and converted him. At 1 6 he was a full-fledged, poster-writing, bomb-making revolutionary. At 19 he had been jailed, exiled...