Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hour before the Dawn (Paramount) is a picturization of W. Somerset Maugham's novel of that name. Its thesis: there's nothing wrong with a pacifist that committing murder won't cure. As a boy, Franchot Tone suffered a psychic shock when he shot his dog; after that he was a sourpuss at hunt breakfasts. "Now, if it was the birds that had the rifles," he would mutter...
...outstanding characteristics of the Bach-type organ are brilliance of tone, clear definition of the various musical parts, absence of the variously colored orchestral effects prized by "romantic" organists...
Editor La Cossitt plans no changes in the tone of Collier's (wartime circulation ceiling: 2,860,000). His immediate task is smart coverage of invaded Europe. He has some star reporters for this crucial job: William B. Courtney and Martha Gellhorn are already in England. Soon to join them is Reporter Gellhorn's husband, who has succeeded in making literature out of war reporting, burly, newly-bearded Ernest Hemingway...
...Pravda the Russian reads what the Central Committee of the Communist Party wants him to read. It is the official Party organ. Stalin, as General Secretary of the Party, is always interested in the tone which Pravda sets for the rest of the Soviet press. Too busy now to give it close personal attention, he is represented in its management by 43-year-old Alexander Sergeevich Shcherbakov, head of the Soviet Information Bureau, member of the all-powerful Politburo...
...Star sets the tone for all military papers. Red Navy and Stalin Hawk-for the air force-are closely modeled on it. Red Star's battle reports are the Soviet Union's most reliable and most colorful. Since all Russians get military training, all correspondents have military rank. Most of Red Star's are majors, who wear no insignia to distinguish them as newsmen. Red Star's star correspondent is greying Ilya Ehrenburg, 53, whose dispatches are frequently cabled to the U.S. Pravda and Izvestia also run his highly colored, hate-filled dispatches...