Word: procession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last summer, after the Greek army's victory in the Grammos Mountains, it looked as though the guerrilla power was broken and that only a mopping-up process lay ahead. This month, re-equipped by Greece's Communist neighbors, the guerrillas made a startling comeback by attacking government positions in the Vitsi Mountains (TIME, Oct. 11). The Greek army, which had heroically sustained casualties up to 13% in the Grammos operation, had little appetite for the Vitsi campaign. The guerrillas had a fresh, seemingly unlimited supply of land mines which they were using to the full; World...
Little Ben Hogan, the golfer of the year, squatted on the 18th green at Oakmont Country Club (Calif.) last week, studying a downhill five-foot putt. His opponents regard the process with some awe; Hogan habitually comments that a green is a "hard one to think"; he doesn't say that it is hard to play. He sank the five-footer...
Most so-called serious novelists have an ax to grind, a true bill to find, a point of view that they want to uphold regardless of how many opposing points of view they may have to howl down or ignore in the process. James Gould Cozzens is like his fellows in this respect-with one admirable difference. The point he insists on making is that the world is far too wrapped up in different points of view for any one of them to be entirely true, that "the Nature of Things abhors a drawn line and loves a hodgepodge...
...immediate paper profit for Crosby was around $138,000. The chances for long-range profit looked even better, for Jock Whitney has shown a sharp eye for picking and financing winners.* Whitney got into the frozen juice business through National Research Corp., a war-boomed company that licenses the process by which Vacuum Foods concentrates and freezes the juice. When mixed with three parts of water, the frozen juice is the closest thing yet to fresh-squeezed juice...
...International) is an adaptation of the novel by Frederic (The Hucksters) Wakeman about the strange character and conduct of a Broadway producer. Eric Busch (John Payne), a writer, hopes that the great Matt Saxon (Robert Montgomery) will produce his play about Moliere. Saxon is ready and eager, but the process is not entirely simple. Saxon is a man of considerable charm, vitality and at least surface ability; but he is also something of a maniac. His mania is to charm, dominate and, if possible, destroy every person who falls within his spell. The little improvements he insists on disembowel Eric...