Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's shabby, slum-girdled Old Vic, one of the great repertory theaters of the world, was blitzed to atoms. But London was not to be robbed by a bomb of a tradition it cherished, or of the classics it loved. Fortnight ago, in St. Martin's Lane, a reborn Old Vic opened in a blaze of glory, and helped a theater slump, brought on by the robombs, to turn back into a boom...
Reported Dead. Maurice Chevalier, 54, straw-hatted, camel-lipped vaudevillian; executed by French Maquis. Son of a starving housepainter in Paris's Menilmontant slum, Chevalier first took the stage at II as a midget comic, played baggy-pants burlesque routines while he grew taller. In his teens, he replaced the dancing partner of Paris's famed Mistinguette, in World War I landed in a German prison camp, escaped as a Red Cross worker. After the war he grinned and pouted his way from French casinos to frothy U.S. cinema successes (Love Parade, The Smiling Lieutenant), thriftily saved...
...mere city patcher and prettifier whose chief interest is showy public works but not slum clearance...
Sirs: TIME (May 8) inadvertently points up an impressive irony about our country. Slum-raised Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, who owes the country practically nothing, has fought with supreme resource and courage in order that a system of government may survive under which citizens like Sewell Avery, whose general aim is to keep citizens like the Kellys in their place, can defy that government in its own courts. This $64 angle is submitted for Hollywood's $25,000 story about the Kelly family, a movie for which I can hardly wait...
...Patrick had been a student under great Biologist Thomas Huxley. He was one of those versatile men who are referred to every decade as "the last Renaissance man." When he felt that his scientific writings were detracting from his civic obligations, Geddes switched to town-planning and slum clearance in Edinburgh. Because he believed that Scotland owed a great debt to Hindu philosophy, Geddes taught hygiene and town-planning in India for ten years. He was "one of the fathers of modern geography," and author of such classic studies as The Evolution of Sex, Chapters in Modern Botany. The essential...