Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...designer for the Royal Opera House's first Salome of its own since 1936 who could "reflect visually both the cold, fantastic imagery of Wilde's text and the hot eroticism of [the late Richard] Strauss's music." In mustached Surrealist Salvador Dali, he thought he had found his man. Gleefully, producer and designer hatched their plans. Dali wanted to have Salome's brassiere equipped with fireworks that would shoot off sparks at the end of her Dance of the Seven Veils; also to have a flying hippopotamus zooming over the stage for added effect. Both...
...record high, although dollar volume would dip. Next year looked almost as good. "The next six months," predicted Lazarus, "will show no further drop in employment or production." Federated's Director Paul M. Mazur, a senior partner of Manhattan's Lehman Bros, investment banking firm, thought that the strikes even held some concealed blessings for business: "They often provide a heaven-sent opportunity to clean up burdensome inventories...
When the Department of Justice went after the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. with an antitrust suit two months ago (TIME, Sept. 26), it thought it had a popular target. The trustbusters thought that small grocers would be glad to see the A & P chopped down to size. Last week A & P happily produced evidence that the trustbusters might have guessed wrong. In full-page newspaper ads in 1,800 cities...
...Independent Business, which says it represents 136,000 small businessmen, has opened a newspaper campaign of its own. Its headline cried: "'A & P ADVERTISEMENT FALSE'-STATES U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE." But the federation was having a hard time making its rebuttal in Washington newspapers, where it thought it would have the most effect. The Post, Star and Times-Herald, which usually carry A & P ads, refused the federation's ad. Only the Daily News, which carries no regular A & P advertising, would...
Instead of that, Labor M.P. and Editor Michael Foot of the weekly Tribune (whose pretty, 34-year-old bride is an independent film producer) thought the government should "use the opportunity presented by the spectacle of the rocking Rank empire to go into the film business itself." Foot wants to establish a state theater circuit and a national motion picture company to finance independent producers and distribute their films. But his idea got scant support. The government has not done very well with its venture into the movie business so far. It had set up the National Film Finance Corp...