Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dudgeon. In Middletown, Conn., Angelo Salafia, classified IA, was fined $100 for painting on his draft-board chairman's sidewalk: "Connell-what have you done for the war effort...
...theater was not yet ready for tragedy, it was no longer battening on trash. Where a stray School for Brides ground out a living from the sidewalk trade, a dozen other smutlings, including Chicago's record-breaking Good Night Ladies, starved in short order. Most of the smash hits were mere entertainment, but entertainment with some freshness and taste. There were no electrifying experiments during the season, but a good many successes - the Pulitzer-Prizewinning Harvey, the Critics' Circle Prize-winning Glass Menagerie, I Remember Mama, Anna Lucasta, Dark of the Moon - had more than a touch...
Strolling through the White House grounds one day last week, Harry Truman spied workmen digging out the stump of an old, diseased poplar tree. He stopped to watch. Result: the President of the United States was photographed in the friendly, homely pose of a typical sidewalk superintendent...
Colette, 72, and heavily mascaraed, accepted the honor as an inevitable tribute to France's foremost woman writer. She breezed to the Goncourt election luncheon in a big black car. She hobbled with arthritic grace across the sidewalk through a lane of admirers and fellow Academicians. To flashbulbing cameramen she cried: "Mes enfants, you are ridiculous! You are machine-gunning me!" Archly she posed her frizzled, felt-hatted, grey head and pointed her sandaled, red-toenailed feet. What had she done during the occupation? "Mes enfants, I did the same thing as the last 15 years: nothing. I didn...
Hours later radio was still repeating the A.P. story-now carefully emphasizing that A.P. was the author. Meantime commentators (with studiously cautious comments) and special newscasters (with no special news) reported from Washington and San Francisco. Sidewalk interviewers buttonholed unofficial celebrants. Extra-special musical numbers flew over the air like confetti (NBC hopefully played Look for the Silver Lining). From London, CBS's Ed Murrow said flatly: Truman and Churchill were ready to make an announcement but "it is now being held up ... [by] Marshal Stalin...