Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through entirely unjammed; 35% are jammed but still intelligible. Since the news is repeated over & over 24 hours a day, the Russians are undoubtedly still getting much news from the outside world. So far they have not been forbidden to listen to the Voice. As one escaped Russian airman put it: "To listen is not forbidden but it is not recommended...
...show was a picture of a girl bending to drink from a fountain in Union Square. "I've got pages & pages of sketches of men and girls drinking out of that fountain," she says. "You know, most people lift one leg when they drink. Some put their hands behind them. Others embrace the bowl. But it's so quick and nice - nice-like birds, they drink and fly away - and I have a devil of a time. You could easily pose a person there, of course, but that wouldn't be it. I struggle for months & months...
...years, Captain Kidd has put hundreds of students through such paces. One was the late General Hugh ("Ironpants") Johnson; another, California's Governor Earl Warren. ("An average student," says the Captain of Governor Warren. "I always figured he'd get farther on his personality than his legal knowledge . . .") They all learned what the Captain was after. He loathed the traditional law-school curriculum in which each course is a separate package, bound by the particular textbook cases at hand. He wanted to force a student to draw upon his entire knowledge of law. For all their sufferings...
...rich and sentimental Texas, such resourceful attention to the customer's whims has put Linz Bros. "Jewelists" (a copyrighted coinage) in a class by itself. To gladden its clients' eyes, Linz has turned out gold and platinum cowboy belt buckles, and jeweled stickpins shaped like oil derricks (one of them for a late-shopping oilman who amused himself while he waited by tossing silver dollars on the floor ahead of the janitor's broom). But such spectacular baubles are only the showy side of a solid, 72-year-old trade that grosses $2,000,000 a year...
...feet of film still streaming weekly out of five major newsreel companies (Fox-Movietone, Paramount, Warner Pathe, Universal, M-G-M News-of-the-Day) was being staled in television areas by TV's faster, if still less complete, news coverage in pictures. Peacetime had put a big crimp in the popularity won by the war's combat films. But when such ordinarily surefire films as last year's Louis-Walcott fight and Army-Navy game failed to draw heavily, the realists knew the reason...