Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S May 20 Cinema section gives an erroneous box-office report (also published in Variety) for The Spirit of St. Louis in Little Falls, Minn., Charles A. Lindbergh's home town. The film played in two theaters, not one, grossing a near record of $1,380 at the Falls and $239.20 at a smaller theater for a total $1,619.20 in one week. Latest Little Falls population census is 6,717. So Lindy is still a big hero in his home town...
...Chief Justice of the U.S., was remarkably candid in specifying his hopes for the direction of U.S. justice over the next quarter-century. Satisfied that "the more cynical forms of 'legal realism' are growing less fashionable," Warren declared for a credo of legal idealism. "It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive," he wrote in FORTUNE. "The beginning of justice is the capacity to generalize and make objective one's private sense of wrong." Earl Warren's Supreme Court has followed his direction-and by last week it had provoked...
...lectured us for 2 ½ hours. He said that fortifications are always out of date. Even if you fortify a town today with the most modern methods, he said, it will be out of date tomorrow because of new weapons and tactics. He told us that the right spirit for a commander is to do the job with the resources he has available. It's his duty to use his brain and energy with what's at hand, even if the town falls in half an hour, and afterwards he is court-martialed and shot...
...Spirit of St. Louis. New York to Paris with Charles A. Lindbergh: Director Billy Wilder and Actor James Stewart make a good film about a great adventure (TIME, March...
...chose an apt title for his book from a text that he attributes to an 18th century merchant: "These people of the South have upon them the mark of original sin, a curse of Satanas. Whence poverty, invasions, the Bourbons, Jesuits, cholera and all the ills that afflict the spirit and the flesh. And then you ask me: Why do they leave? Are they not content here? I tell you: No. And no government-as distinguished from Christ -can ever redeem them...