Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five major newsreel companies (Fox-Movietone, Paramount, Warner Pathe, Universal, M-G-M News-of-the-Day) was being staled in television areas by TV's faster, if still less complete, news coverage in pictures. Peacetime had put a big crimp in the popularity won by the war's combat films. But when such ordinarily surefire films as last year's Louis-Walcott fight and Army-Navy game failed to draw heavily, the realists knew the reason...
Before the war, the largest class was 1045 students in 1932; the average enrollment for the five years before Pearl Harbor was 937. The Class of 1952 is the biggest peacetime group in the College's history...
...returned to Russia in 1945, however, for a year as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Moscow. Before taking the Russian post, he was with the Ministry of Information in New York from 1941-42 and then moved to the Embassy in Washington as First Secretary. For his war service the King made him in 1946 a Commander of the Order of the British Empire...
...Washington Embassy, Berlin's principal task was making political reports on the U.S. which were sent to London over the signature, "I. Berlin." Some of these came to Churchill's attention, and when another I. Berlin, better know as a composer than a political analyst, visited London during the War, the Prime Minister decided to entertain him at lunch. There are numerous versions of the meeting, but no official account has been published. It is said that Irving Berlin departed much complimented by the trust that Churchill put in his opinions on American affairs. But the Prime Minister had somewhat...
...Four Foreign Ministers who meet in Parts today in seek a German settlement may seize a favorable opportunity to explore a broader armistice in the cold war, diplomats said yesterday...