Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fell in with a Foreign Office radio official named Max Otto Koischwitz. Koischwitz, who had once been a professor at New York's Hunter College, was a man of influence. That, plus Mildred Gillars' soft and insinuating American voice, brought her a highly paid job-opportunity to show her talent. Soon she was doing her best to undermine the morale of U.S. troops, was famed from Africa to Italy as Axis Sally...
...justified by facts is difficult to say, chiefly because there aren't any that can be used. The lack of conciliatory Russian actions in the UN is supposed to be a useful fact, but it proves very little so far as this particular issue is concerned. It does show that Premier Stalin's statement to the press was not necessarily made in good faith; but it does not show that the statement was necessarily and beyond the shadow of a doubt made in bad faith. It would have to do that to prove that the situation implied by the phrase...
...Dodds, still the country's top miler, worked out at Briggs Cage yesterday either for exercise, recreation, or perhaps to show Crimson trackmen how it's done. Dodds wasn't just on a sight-seeing tour. He precedes his Wheaton College (Illinois) track team, which he is entering in the annual B.A.A. Games Saturday. Coach Jaakko Mikkola was not particularly awed by Dodds's performance. He noted that the "flying parson" was "out of condition and quite a bit below his usual time...
...nothing new, but he has not lost his touch in saying it in a startling way. Every Odets line has the impact, and sometimes the serewiness, of a tabloid headline. Perhaps his characters aren't real. Perhaps they are. Clifford Odets is real. He is the star of the show...
...Stage, with its own pleasantly romantic, stage-struck air, helps to explain why show business, in good times or bad, retains its .own peculiar brand of glamor...