Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsstand in front of the offices of Rudé Právo a copy of TIME displayed, not prominently, but easily seen. It was the issue of December 29 with a picture of the Virgin and Child on the cover. When I asked the old woman in charge of the stand what sort of magazine it was, she winked at me and said it was an 'art' magazine. I asked if I might buy it. 'No,' she said, 'leave it for those who need...
Opponents of this legitimate cause for compulsory subscription point to Vassar which supports two semi-weekly papers from advertising and circulation revenue alone. But Vassar is strictly a woman's college lacking the large male university with its highly competitive paper that we have next door. Granted the virtues of a daily paper, Radcliffe has neither the news nor the facilities to produce more than a weekly one. Consequently the News is the only possible outlet at Radcliffe for official notices, as well as being the only means--excepting the often inadequate Agassiz boxes--by which the whole college...
Most U.S. correspondents were in the Astor Hotel and they had a grandstand view of the fighting, in which 300 died. Cabled TIME Correspondent Tom Dozier: "Outside the hotel lie the bodies of two men and one woman who climbed atop one of the tanks that moved through the mob to defend the Presidential Palace. Government riflemen lying prone in the street popped them off at short range. One fell beneath the tank's treads and his head was crushed. It is not a pretty sight...
Amelia Goes to the Ball, which was no crashing success when produced at the Metropolitan Opera ten years ago, is a rambunctious drawing-room farce about a woman who is so anxious to get to a ball that she cracks her husband over the head with a vase, has her lover arrested, and finally sweeps off with the chief of police. Beside The Old Maid and the Thief, the other half of the evening's bill, it seemed pretty thin...
...show needed tightening and pruning. It ran ten minutes overtime, poked around too long backstage. There were too many interviews (with Author Thomas Heggen, Producer Leland Hayward, Henry Fonda and the cast), too little of Mister Roberts. "It's really much better when you see it," commented a woman televiewer. Television and Broadway agreed, hoped that this week's try (at The Heiress) would be better...