Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dispersal for War. Canada has already picked her man to run the show: tall, tight-lipped Sydney David Pierce, 47, onetime Olympic hurdler and Associated Press reporter. During World War II he was stationed in Washington, working on mutual production problems. Since last June, though still nominally Canadian ambassador to Mexico, he has been in Paris watching Canada's interest...
...Parnell Thomas, 53, chairman-in-eclipse of the House Un-American Activities Committee, came down with another attack of gastrointestinal trouble. But he would probably be well enough by Jan. 10 to show up for his trial in federal court in Washington on charges of conspiring to defraud the Government...
...right one kicked three times. The crowd cheered Handy's demonstration, but most coaches were a little skeptical. Handy was sure that time would vindicate him. Said he: "When I was younger and got a new idea, I'd get out and break a record. That would show 'em. I'm too old to do that...
Only two National League teams (the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins) and one All-America club (the San Francisco 49ers) seemed likely to show a profit. The Chicago Rockets of the All-America Conference would lose more than $300,000, the Los Angeles Rams of the National League about $200,000. Complained Owner Alexis Thompson of the Philadelphia Eagles: "[It's a] fantastic situation that finds me with a championship team that will lose close to $32,000 this year...
...paintings in Portinari's show in São Paulo told of more enduring evils. Many were staring close-ups of the poor-which he sells for fat sums to the rich. Lately Portinari has abandoned the sad grey plains and squat, nubble-knuckled figures of his earlier years in favor of a tropically brilliant, anatomically believable world that blazes with sunshiny yellows and royal-purple shadows. But though he has changed the colors of his palette, he has not changed his political colors. The clear new light in Portinari's newest murals-including that of the Tooth...