Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mean war between the U.S. and Russia? Only the Russians knew the answer to that question; Americans profoundly hoped not. There were three possible alternatives, short...
Three months ago, earnest, angular Editor Ben McKelway of the Washington Star called one of his reporters on the carpet. To 29-year-old Tom G. Buchanan Jr., who covered the medical beat, the boss put one question: Are you a Communist? Reporter Buchanan, an ex-Army captain, replied that he was (an admission that most good Communists regard as naive). McKelway carefully assured Buchanan that his work had been satisfactory. Then he fired...
...final, Big Jake faced a man he was tired of seeing. He had played Bobby Riggs 89 times in the past five months. "It's just a question of doing what you've done a lot of times before," said Big Jake. He did it again, beating Bobby...
...Cleveland, the big question of the week was: "What's the matter with Bob Feller?" The great man, whose pitching arm commands baseball's highest pay ($87,000), had lost five straight. The guesses ranged from a "temporary slump" to "natural deterioration" after a dozen years. Said Feller himself: "I'm not going to answer questions like that. I'm not going to throw gasoline on a fire that's going like hell anyway." He canceled all outside activities, including autograph parties at stores selling his book, How to Pitch. This week against the Philadelphia...
...question used to be: Can Shakespeare's plays be made into successful movies? With his film production of Henry V (TIME, April 8, 1946), Sir Laurence Olivier settled that question once & for all. But Henry raised another question that it could not answer: Can the screen cope with Shakespeare at his best? Olivier undertook to answer that one, too. One evening next week, at simultaneous previews in Manhattan and Hollywood,* the first U.S. audiences will see the result...