Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the moment he walked into court to defend black-haired Judith Coplon (TIME. March 14) on charges of espionage, it was obvious that Attorney Archibald Palmer would do his best to turn drama into burlesque. In years of trying bankruptcy and miscellaneous claims cases in Manhattan, loudmouthed little Archie Palmer had learned every trick. Last week in Washington, he used them...
Like those who know where to lay hands on Ambrose Bierce, Charley Ross or Judge Crater, there are people who turn up at irregular intervals with grandiose and intricate claims to large chunks of the U.S. Lawyers make money out of these things, and everybody else laughs. On the stage of Madrid's Teatro Martin one night recently, everybody laughed at "Lepe," Spain's favorite clown...
...three-month-old daughter for a rest and a couple of congressional hearings on China, took a fighter's view of the whole situation: "I have seen it a lot worse for us in China and the Pacific than even it is now, and I have seen us turn it around and win . . . There are millions and millions of Chinese who don't like Communism and will fight...
...selecting the material, MOT film editors looked at some 65 million feet of war film. About 80% of the pictures have been restricted, and never shown to the public. The amount of good footage available to illustrate each military operation has necessarily determined the shape of the film; in turn, the film has often gained in comprehensibility by giving shape to the shapelessness of war. The words of the book, where possible, have been used as commentary to the pictures; for the rest, MOT has filled in the story in a useful, modest prose...
First goal of the drive is to get Londoners to turn out for eight consecutive nights of revival meetings to be held in every local parish, beginning next week. Volunteers are assigned to 120 centers, each in charge of a specially trained priest. A typical center director is 36-year-old Rev. George Edmund Reindorp, whose parish includes some of the poorest and some of the most fashionable, sections of Westminster. Reindorp instructs his volunteer door-to-door canvassers always to knock three times-"once for the Father, once for the Son, and once for the Holy Ghost." He explained...