Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exotic Resolutions. Markos, since proclaiming himself Premier of the "Provisional Democratic Government of Greece" last Christmas Eve, has not only been issuing conscription orders but otherwise acting like a government. Around him he has a "cabinet" of twelve men. Slight, dark Petros Roussos is Minister of Foreign Affairs; short, bespectacled Ioannis Ioannides, a consumptive ex-barber who went to Moscow's School of Eastern Studies, is Markos' Vice Premier and Minister of the Interior; Minister of Justice is Miltiades Porphyrogenis, a 45-year-old lawyer who has been busy organizing an international brigade to help the Greek Communists...
...short two-acter, Prostitute is Existentialist Sartre's blast at racism and reaction in the U.S. South (which he visited briefly in 1946). The play tells how Lizzie McKaye, a Northern prostitute new to a Southern town, is unsuccessfully high-pressured but effectively soft-soaped into accepting the town's mores. She signs a paper that frames a Negro for rape and lets a white murderer go free. Afterwards Lizzie (well played by Meg Mundy*) feels tricked and disturbed, hides the Negro during a manhunt. But Liz eventually becomes resigned and "respectful"-she agrees to be the mistress...
Last week surgeons were busily discussing an improvement on lobotomy announced at a special meeting called by the New York Society of Neurosurgery. Some thought that the new operation, called topectomy,* was the best yet. Others were skeptical. Instead of short-circuiting the whole frontal lobe, the surgeons remove part of the brain tissue-sometimes tiny bits, sometimes pieces as big as a cookie. The size depends on the patient's symptoms ; so does the area in which the hole is made (it may be in the temple just above the eyebrow, higher on the forehead...
That sounded rather professorial, for a painter, but it helped some. A TIME correspondent who penetrated Matisse's seclusion last week found him far warmer than his words might indicate. At 78, Matisse spends half of each day in bed, and never leaves his house except for a short stroll in the garden after lunch. Illness has not dulled his appetite for life or for work. His blue eyes twinkle youthfully behind his thick glasses; his snowy little beard, jollity and industriousness make him seem something like Santa Claus. His bedroom and studio are both brighter than any toyshop...
Last week, CBS presented him as a radio star in a new program tailored to his short, (5 ft. 2 in.), explosive measure. "Shorty Bell" (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.), "a novel written especially for the air," is a continued story about a tough young newspaper circulation hustler who would give his brass knuckles to be a reporter...