Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. James J. Metcalfe, 53, German-born ex-FBI agent (1931-35) who helped gun down John Dillinger outside Chicago's Biograph Theater in 1934, later joined the Chicago Times as a reporter, made a splash with his 1937 series exposing the German-American Bund; of an abdominal hemorrhage; in Dallas...
...most time-dishonored custom on Broadway is the advertising trick of lifting words and phrases out of context from critical reviews, thereby changing negatives to positives, pans to raves. Last week a half-page splash in the New York Times heralded Albert Camus' early (1938) play, Caligula, which had just opened for the first time on Broadway (see THEATER...
...Lovers (Zenith International), swimming out of La Nouvelle Vague (TIME, Nov. 16) without any clothes on, has made quite a financial splash. The picture has already grossed $360,000 in Paris -the returns are not yet in from the back country, where the movie is still showing -and in the U.S. it has broken box-office records all around the art-house circuit...