Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rachmilovich has used the same principle in building the reputation of his play-for-fun Santa Monica Symphony. When he finally got some of his money out of Europe (a friend sent it to him in Swiss watches, which sold easily in the war-short U.S.), he put it into making records ("something people would want-and would have to take ours or go without...
Until Harrington found the thigh bone, almost nothing personal was known about Pinto Man. But careful study of the bone showed that the ancient hunter was short (5 ft. 6 in.) and squat...
Cure? What to do about it? First, says Cleveland, N.A.M. should have a free election of top officers, and let the membership play a bigger role. It might then adopt a code of ethics "with an eye to something more than short-run profits...
...group whose membership is voluntary, Cleveland admits, enforcing the code would be tough and perhaps impossible. Nevertheless, "let organized industrialists define economic abuses and act against them . . . develop adequate group controls in those industrial areas where real economic competition has ceased to exist . . . look beyond the short-run profit motive to the old but valid goals of true free enterprise. Until at least a start is made in this direction, the possibility of progressive leadership's emerging from within industry is very remote...
...pure sense a movie; but under Michael Gordon's direction it is a nearly perfect example of how to film a play. There is hardly a shot which does not set up visual tension against the lashing, steel-spring dialogue; there is not a single performance which is short of adequate; the work of Miss Eldridge, Mr. O'Brien and Betsey Blair, as a shaky-minded neighbor, is much more...