Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Artist Cooper says pictures such as his Shon-Ka may be hung in any of four ways, he overlooks a fifth and preferable way: facing the wall...
When Davenport goes into Barron's this week, its present editor, George Shea, crack corporation analyst, will become financial editor of the Wall Street Journal. The two will work closely together. Davenport would like to see Barron's slowly become a more influential journal of political and economic opinion, but is mum about specific changes. Says he: "There's no magic in this business. It'll come out in the doing...
...highbrow monthly Horizon, Editor Cyril Connolly once wrote: "We English are never so happy as with our backs to the wall, and an understanding Providence has ordained that we need seldom abandon our favorite position." This week, after struggling for ten years to keep Horizon from going to the wall, Connolly abandoned his favorite position...
...Jersey, as in eleven other states, there is a statute which requires that the Bible be read without comment in every public school. To the Secularists, this was a violation of the "wall of separation between church & state...
Eying the dollar loss, some exchange experts thought that the pound might be in for more trouble, unless Britain removed her strict controls on its use. Warned the Wall Street Journal: "The pound is still a hobbled currency . . . The man who holds a pound sterling, with its limited usefulness, still wants to swap it for U.S. dollars or other money that is spendable anywhere any time . . . Under such circumstances, there is no 'rockbottom' price [for the pound...