Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bull Market Sir: Re your Jan. 10 article "Business in 1954": You might weigh the usefulness of the term "social capitalism" . . . The old term "capitalism," with its gritty and seamy connotations, needs a bit of face lifting to make our version of it comprehensible outside North America where capitalism does not operate as it does in the modern...
Nothing, of course, could be more inconsequential than the continual doings and undoings of the Conservative Club, last spring's version of the shaggy dog story. The group has since lost its straight man from the Class of '29, but, with a singular wit, it has persevered. Only one could menaces our pleasure in the club's antics: every down, it is said, wants to play Hamlet and the Conservatives are now evincing an interest in learning something about politics...
...Islands, a schoolboy once replied: "Somerset Maugham." He was right, of course. Captain Cook found some geographical points, but he missed the emotional one that Sadie Thompson and Ginger Ted, the supreme remittance man in all literature, have supplied to millions. Ted is back again in this second screen version of The Beachcomber. This time Actor Robert Newton sees, as Charles Laughton in the 1939 version failed to, the low, colonial swank of the fellow, and plays it for the snickers it deserves...
...airline, formally applied to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation for permission to buy 19 U.S.-built Douglas DC-7C airliners for its transoceanic routes. BOAC and its Chairman Sir Miles Thomas, who once placed their bets on the ill-fated Comet jet transports, now want a modified version of the piston-engined DC-7 of U.S. airlines, enlarged to carry 68 passengers nonstop across the Atlantic. Cost: $42.7 million...
...weeks later Eisler was released and made his way to East Germany, where he was propaganda boss until he lost favor in 1952. He now heads an East German version of the Gallup poll...