Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hudson's Bay Inspector L. A. Learmonth with the aid of the wife of the Anglican missionary at Coppermine. The missionary's adopted daughter Ann posed prettily in white fox, with a rabbit cap (see cut). Eskimos Paulette and Doris draped themselves in choicest red and silver foxes from the spring catch, chose identical wolverine caps...
Censorship was still news-and still impeding the news. In the U.S. the Office of Censorship was all gone but the archives; nobody was happier to see it go, insisted Director Byron Price, than he. Last week in his final report to Harry Truman, precise, silver-haired, ex-A.P.-man Price made two cogent points: 1) any wartime censorship must "hold to the single purpose" of keeping dangerous information from the enemy; 2) "no one who does not dislike censorship should ever be permitted to exercise censorship...
...Spain as bullion. The few surviving objects were mostly buried deep in ancient tombs. Last week Mexico's Institute of Anthropology and History announced the discovery of 200 prehistoric gold ornaments in Oaxaca. In Brooklyn, the museum of art opened a small, comprehensive show of pre-Columbian gold, silver and jade from the Americas...
Other notable items: a delicately carved jade burial mask designed to fit over a mummy's face; a breastplate with three leaping, snarling jaguars; a gold flute on which two baby lizards crawled; a toothpick-size silver spoon with a tiny monkey perched on the handle-designed to scoop wax out of a Peruvian aristocrat's ears...
...artist's son, Richardson started acting at 18, has seldom been without a part since. A hardworking, not very confident, thoroughly un-actory actor, he trudged slowly to the top, has also made a name for himself in British cinema (The Citadel, The Silver Fleet). In 1935 he made his only U.S. appearance, as Mercutio in the Katharine Cornell Romeo and Juliet. In 1939 he joined the Fleet Air Arm, "flew all day and never thought of anything. I was deaf as an adder and had a wonderful appetite." Last year he and his fellow flyer, Olivier, were released...