Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secret Field Police, was bored, contemptuous. Lieut. Hans Ritz, 24, was a small man with a caved-in chest, a gnome-like bald head and an infantile expression. The fourth defendant, Mikhail Petrovich Bulanov, was a Russian who had hired himself out as a chauffeur of a Nazi death van; beneath close-drawn eyebrows his eyes peered sharply at the court as the tribunal secretary read the four men's confessions. Their crimes ranged from rubber truncheon beatings to participation in mass executions...
...characters manage to convey reality to radio listeners is something of a mystery even to Author Rhymer. He does not know how he does it, and is inclined to give the credit to actors Bernardine Flynn, a fugitive from Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude, and Art Van Harvey, ex-grain broker, advertising man and vaudevillian, who have played Sade & Vic Gook from the beginning. Says Rhymer: "They could read aloud from the telephone directory and sound entertaining...
...Voice of the Turtle (by John van Druten; produced by Alfred de Liagre Jr.) offers the season's smallest cast and one of its gayest evenings. Playwright van Druten (There's Always Juliet, Old Acquaintance) has not only written a winning light comedy around just three people, but has even managed to suggest that three's a crowd. For youthful Actress Sally Middleton (Margaret Sullavan) and Sergeant Bill Page (Elliott Nugent) two is company, and good comedy at that...
Senator O'Mahoney's rock-bottom argument was that, even if the industry is lily-white today, the Bailey-Van Nuys bill would be "a charter from Congress to do what they please in the future." Tongue in cheek, he also suggested two nullifying amendments to the bill, designed to make State regulation as effective as Federal antitrust procedure...
...week's end Senator Van Nuys still hoped to get his bill out undamaged within the next week, and the fire underwriters still had a lot more to say on their side of the case. But the States' Rights bugaboo was noticeably enfeebled. With all the new hullabaloo, final action may well be delayed until the Supreme Court-as well as Joe O'Mahoney and the Congress-gets a chance to weigh the real issues...