Word: versions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down to the Sea in Ships. Richard Widmark and Lionel Barrymore in a reefed-in version of the old whaling yarn (TIME, March...
Home of the Brave (Screen Plays; United Artists), as a Broadway play by Arthur Laurents, described the crack-up of a Jewish G.I. who was a victim of race prejudice. The movie version, produced by the same small studio that made Champion (TIME, April 11), daringly substitutes a Negro in the central role. Home of the Brave is thus the first of Hollywood's new series of Negro problem films to cross the finish line...
...public hearings were held on the bill. Under the new wording, "teaching the doctrines of atheistic communism" is the offense for which teachers would receive a fine, a year in jail, and banishment from the profession. This phrase replaces "advocating overthrow of the government by force or violence." Either version, however, could conceivably be applied to large bodies of people who did not hold the same views as the Commissioner of Education or the majority of the legislature...
Another amendment to the original version of Sullivan's suggested measure is the replacement of the phrase "one who is a member of the Communist Party and who advocates its doctrines of atheism," by the phrase, "one who advocates . . . overthrow . . . by force or violence...
...have been written about him. Their general story is that Hawthorne was descended from one of the witchcraft judges of Salem; that his father, a sea captain, died when he was three; that he went to Bowdoin, lived in seclusion after graduation, and published his first stories anonymously. This version of his life has been worn smooth from much handling; it is the classic, rather melancholy picture of the American literary man neglected by his time. It is also traditional and mildly touching, and it presents an image of the ideal man of letters just as Douglas Southall Freeman...