Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being written to order for her by Herbert and Dorothy (Annie Get Your Gun) Fields. After more than a quarter-century as a second-stringer in the theater, Shirley Booth is now the hottest thing in show business. She is suddenly the first lady of the American stage and screen...
...spoon, is the sweetest thing there is. Asked this summer to name the foods she would most like to have on a desert island. Shirley said: "Fudge, brownies, chocolate ice cream and orange juice." She loves television, often eats her meals from a tray before her 17-inch screen, and races home from the theater to watch late-at-night TV movies, particularly British ones. She keeps a sketching pad handy, for doodling during the commercials. A stack of drugstore novels on her bed table serves as insurance against insomnia. She has relatively little interest in politics or world affairs...
...burden be split between the nation's 43 million private cars and 9 million trucks? The answer, a subject of bitter wrangling in every state legislature, has been fogged by propaganda fumes from the trucking industry, one of the most powerful lobbies in the U.S., and a smoke screen of publicity from the railroads, archfoes of the truckers...
Merchants & Poets. Rahab the Harlot, whose "house was upon the town wall." concealed the spies sent by Joshua into Jericho; in return, Rahab was protected by the Israelites when the walls came tumbling down. The screen of "merchants" who preceded the Mongol hordes across Asia in the 13th century were the occupational ancestors of the Nazi "businessmen" and "tourists" who infested Europe and Latin America in the 1930s. In China, it is said, military intelligence became such a respected art that rival commanders sometimes parleyed, each with his spies in attendance, and worked out how a pending battle would come...
...Around Us. Rachel Carson's 1951 bestseller brought to the screen in beautiful Technicolor scenes of undersea life, memorable despite faults (TIME, July...