Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High Winds. A toy storm was pleasant, for a change. All week Robert Schuman had been grappling with man-sized tempests. He badly needed a magic button to press-but nowhere in the jittery, confused National Assembly was there the solid majority which could provide...
...Christian Smuts, the wise, venerable, oak-solid Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, was out of office. South Africa, which had been considered safe in the fold of the British Commonwealth (and which last year lent ?80 million in gold as a prop for Britain's sterling), had suddenly embarked on a perverse, isolationist, acutely race-conscious road that might lead to secession from the Commonwealth and to maltreatment and oppression of the country's 9,000,000 non-Europeans...
...France-Soir's building on the Rue Réaumur, blond young (28) Publisher Aristide Blank made a hardheaded guess about the future of the French press; "An island of collectivism cannot exist in a sea of capitalism. The only possible press here is one based on solid commercial foundations. In a few months the entire face of the French press will change. Then there will be only very small papers of opinion, and very great papers of information. We are going in the direction of cartels of the press...
...paintings are meticulously composed glimpses of ruin, misery and decay. A Thomas Traddles among painters, he pictures philosophers asleep under Paris bridges and ragged princes mooning among the ruins of their family palaces; his work fairly groans with heartache. But Berman himself, whose painted gloom has earned him a solid reputation throughout Europe, has claimed to be "divinely happy" ("It's just that I enjoy melancholy things...
River Lady (Universal-International) is a solid little "sleeper" in a solid set of Technicolor pajamas. The studio seems to have intended making just another Yvonne de Carlo picture. But Scripters D. D. Beauchamp and William Bowers somehow got inspired by a logging war and turned out a trim screenplay; they even went so far as to write some good dialogue. Rough-hewn Rod Cameron turns in a smooth-sawn performance as a lumberjack, and Newcomer Helena Carter is expert as the girl who takes Rod away from his fancy lady (Miss De Carlo). Also starred is a redwood tree...