Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anything. Egghead Gibbons' committee appearance proved only that pretensions to learning can be a dangerous thing. Alternately arrogant ("I cannot be responsible for the inadequacies of your staff") and evasive ("Don't expect me to say yes or no in this instance"), Gibbons left the stand to rejoin the high-binding band that conducts Teamster affairs. It was very unlikely that smooth-talking Harold Gibbons would ever field another invitation to lecture at Harvard...
...Osservatore with a blast at a sequence in which the Devil warms up Eve for the apple scene by bouncing her off in a frenetic rock 'n' roll. "This caricature of the female half of mankind would be enough to justify our protests. Nowhere does the Bible say that the female human was under devilish influence or in connivance with the Devil...
...greatest picturemaking factories in all Europe, and most of the work was carried out by Rubens' apprentices. But, notes Director Cheek, "there's no doubt about our sketch. Its proven pedigree goes back to the moment it left Rubens' hand, which is more than we could say of the finished painting, even if it exists...
...traditionally unsophisticated Brooklyn, Federated's Abraham & Straus often plugs its goods in sophisticated ads with its slogan ("Do not say you cannot find it until you have shopped at A & S!") spelled out in Latin, Greek, French or Icelandic. It lives up to its slogan by providing such items as lefthanded scissors, cutters for soft-boiled eggs, holders for used tea bags, concave head brushes for bald men (with nylon bristles). While every other major Brooklyn department store has closed or sold out in the past ten years, A & S has grown more prosperous than ever, now boasts...
...does not overlook the story's gaudy set pieces, including the mass funeral of revolutionaries at which 1,000,000 people, or half the population of Petrograd, marched in silence (the dead were buried without religious services, but next day. in a shamefaced gesture, priests were brought to say prayers). And there is also the unforgettable picture of Lenin being transported-in Churchill's phrase "like a plague bacillus"-across Germany in the famous sealed train. Lenin made his associates retire to the train toilet to smoke-an autocratic gesture that should have given them pause...