Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Pearl Harbor this letter has followed the news spotlight overseas; we have told you much about our battlefront and foreign affairs coverage, and about the correspondents responsible for it. Now, after four long years away, the spotlight has shifted to U.S. affairs-to the problems of returning G.I.s, the acute shortage of housing, the steel strikes, and the many other phases of current industrial strife. The world is watching to see how the U.S. handles these problems, and TIME is fully prepared to cover them-from the national, not the Ivory Tower, point of view...
...Mike was in the spotlight again. Red Mike was once a fighter in the Irish Republican Army, once a lowly change maker in a New York City subway station. Now Michael Joseph Quill, 40, is president of the C.I.O.'s Transport Workers Union and a member of New York's City Council. He is a practicing Catholic and a member of the American Labor Party...
...York City by plane from England, got a push-&-pull welcome from newsmen and relatives. Black-clad, quiet Dr. Meitner stepped from the plane, saw the crowd, promptly stepped back in again, got hold of herself, finally reemerged. Reporters let go with questions, cameramen with flash bulbs. A spotlight's fuse blew. "I'm so awfully tired," said Dr. Meitner. Relatives bustled her off. Next day she was in at the unveiling of the man-made meson (see SCIENCE). Next stop, after a rest: Washington, DC., where she will teach at Catholic University...
...candidate was told to assume that he had been caught riffling through secret files in a government office; in ten minutes he would be grilled for an explanation. Then, facing a spotlight in a dark cellar room, he got an expert crossexamination...
...Broadcasters made the letter public, U.S. radiomen knew they were indeed approaching what Boss Petrillo considers normalcy. They were not badly worried: the loss will make no financial difference, since all foreign musical programs were carried on a sustaining basis. It would stop only two major shows: Atlantic Spotlight, on NBC, and Transatlantic Call on CBS. When NAB suggested that the order might stop Christmas and Easter broadcasts from the Vatican and Jerusalem, Caesar Petrillo exploded. Said he: "We've never stopped religious programs at any time...