Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, the Bulgarian press began to publish the "confessions" of the 15 Protestant leaders indicted for treason. Methodist Yanko Ivanov was said to have admitted giving the U.S. information "on Russian troop movements in Bulgaria." Congregationalist Vassil Ziapkov was quoted: "We betrayed our Motherland, we revealed her secrets before enemies...
...Vienna, Bridegroom Tyrone Power made an important announcement to the press: his bride, Linda Christian (she once had a movie contract with MGM, which dropped her option more than a year ago), will "have enough to do" now that she is married, and so is officially giving up her "career...
...widowed mother, Gladys, announced her engagement to an orchestra leader named Don Sylvio. Margaret objected with howls: on hearing the news, mother reported, Margaret "turned on the tears" and kept them at full flood for two days. Finally calmed down, Margaret read a new set of lines to the press like the trouper that she is: "I had hoped mother would wait until I am 14 and grown up. But since she wants to marry now, I'm glad it's Don. I like...
...Street & Smith, which had folded Pic to give its press time and paper to Mademoiselle's Living (TIME, Oct. 11), decided to stop Living for a while. The slick-paper, homemaking magazine, an offshoot of Mademoiselle, hit a top circulation of 275,000. But S. & S. thought it was too costly to produce, not practical enough in its approach. In the fall, the editors plan to try Living again...
...slum dramatist, a guttersnipe who could jingle a few words together." That was how Playwright Sean O'Casey (The Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock) summarized what much of the Irish press said of him and his works. Absolutely correct, agrees O'Casey-and proud of it. He promises to spend his whole life wearing "the tattered badge of [his proletarian] tribe . . . soiled with the diseased sweat of the tenements...