Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appropriate to ask Citizen Thomas Mann for a more specific definition of the "slight restrictions of freedom" [TIME, Dec. 1] in the country whose citizenship he is anxious to keep . . . He has the moral obligation to speak up instead of spreading insinuations against his adopted homeland and to violate his promise to act as a good-will messenger when issued his American passport for travel abroad. Of course, the Nobel Prize awarded to Thomas Mann was for literature, not for taste, tact and loyalty...
...defined in the radio TV lexicon as "somebody in the business of giving away somebody else's merchandise." Like such other Schlockmeisters as Walter Kline, Adolphe Wenland and Manhattan's Waldo Mayo, Petker gives things away in return for just a kind word. But there is a slight catch: the kind word must refer to a particular product by its brand name, and it must be mentioned on a radio or TV show with an audience of millions. Give-away programs get the bulk of a Schlockmeister's warehouse hoard. Any televiewer who has sat benumbed while...
Stop, You're Killing Me (Warner) sets some more of Damon Runyon's guys & dolls to music.* This tuned-up version of the old (1935) Runyon-Howard Lindsay comedy, A Slight Case of Murder, filmed for the first time in 1938 with Edward G. Robinson, still has as its setting the Saratoga mansion of Beer Baron Marko (Broderick Crawford) in the post-Prohibition era. Here is assembled an assortment of corpses & coppers, mugs & molls, touts & thugs, not to mention a couple of bankers attempting to foreclose on Marko's needled beer brewery, an obnoxious six-year...
...will line up tonight missing four starters from the squad which trounced the Crimson twice last year. Although several sophomores are in the starting lineup, the hosts will have a slight height advantage with two men standing at 6'5". Sacks, Bulger, and Shaw on the Crimson are also spohomores...
...newspapers, political plays, tireless singing of Communist songs. When an informer was brought in, "after being burned with brands and beaten almost to death with rattans, [he was] finished off with a bayonet in the grave that had been prepared for [him]." Out of these surroundings came Chin Peng, slight, 31, pimply-faced, fanatical leader of the Malayan Communists, for whose capture the British will...