Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropole (by William Walden; produced by Max Gordon) was a short-lived satiric farce which tried to poke fun at The New Yorker magazine and its fabulous editor, Harold W. Ross. Calling the magazine Metropole and the editor Frederick M. Hill, it depicted the wacky office life of a well-mannered publication, portrayed an explosive editor suffering from absentmindedness and ulcers...
...Asbury Park, N.J., a mechanical laughing Santa in the window of Steinbach's department store caught fire from a short circuit. While the smoke billowed through the window, his ghostly mechanical belly laugh could be heard ringing in the streets...
...large significance claimed for it. Stronger and better stuff was Elio Vittorini's In Sicily, a sad, smoldering look at Italian poverty and hopelessness under Mussolini. It came with a blessing from Ernest Hemingway, who had postponed his own long-awaited postwar novel to whip out a short one promised for the summer of 1950 under the marathon title, Across the River and into the Trees...
...justifying its policy, good and bad; preaching much more than practicing democracy; and displaying pictorially many more sky scrapers than symphony orchestras or universities. Incidental things, such as converting the one undamaged art museum in Munich into an officers club, have not convinced Germans of American intellectual interests. In short, the undertaking has lacked sophistication, and in a society which gives enormous respect to intellectuals their scorn carries great weight. Gradually, the ISD has come to realize that there is little value in planning propaganda for Germans and Austrians in terms of an American public...
...held up until the FCC finishes talking about color television. When they finally come up for approval, the FCC ought to reconsider its clause on cutting power. The rest of the regulations can eliminate the problem of interference quite nicely, and college radio does not deserve to be short-circuited out of business...