Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Opposers. The Tories must take a shorter view. It is the talk of London that Winston Churchill, to all effects, is out of the Party leadership. At most, says many a knowing Tory gossip, he will manage to hang on for a brief interim, then hand it over. To whom? There's the rub. The Tory Party today is virtually in the position most Americans thought the Democratic Party was in during Franklin Roosevelt's tenure...
...York Herald Tribune sport editor, Stanley ("Coach") Woodward, threw the first brick. Wrote he: ". . . it is doubtful that any Negro will compete ... in view of the fact that he will have to travel to the scene in Jim Crow day coaches, and can expect nothing on arrival except segregation and abuse." Then Woodward steamed out to arrange a rival meet on the same day in some "civilized community," talked about renting New York's Randalls Island Stadium...
Nationwide Parish. Though requests for copies of sermons make up the bulk of it, Dr. Sockman's record-holding letter haul contains enough on personal problems and perplexities to give him a bird's-eye view of his nationwide parish. On the "current thinking of these parishioners, Dr. Sockman hazards these general conclusions...
Mary Martin's first stage appearance since "One Touch of Venus" is a welcome one. Although her voice is not strong, her charm and personality, to revive two senile cliches, serve to make convincing a role which no modern theatre-goer can view without twinges of skepticism. Yul Brynner, still handicapped by a notice able accent, does his best opposite Miss Martin in a somewhat sterile part. The other 45 actors named in the program are mainly character bit players who are competent but have little chance to become outstanding; perhaps Rex O'Mailey was most noticeable because...
...most contemporary primitives, Litwak is a far less sophisticated artist than the Cro-Magnon whose paintings, the earliest known, were found in a cave at Altamira,. Spain. The caveman's graceful, seemingly off-hand study of a charging bison was obviously true to life but Litwak's view of the Metropolitan Museum (see cut) is just as obviously a cockeyed, childlike impression, painted with the cramped, awkward care of an adult artisan. Explains Artist Litwak, whose colors are as hot and heavy as a fur coat in June: "I must have everything correct, just...