Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actor-Producer Orson Welles's troubles with his seven-year-old cinema Citizen Kane (which William Randolph Hearst refused to advertise in his papers) were still following him. Filed in a Manhattan court by Biographer Ferdinand Lundberg: a suit for damages (amount unspecified), charging that Wonder Boy Welles had copped the idea from Biographer Lundberg's Imperial Hearst...
...Separation of church and state" has become a battle cry used by both Protestants and skeptics against Roman Catholic "encroachments." But some U.S. Protestants are beginning to wonder about the reality behind the slogan. Did the Founding Fathers ever envisage a society so secularized or a school system so studiously non-religious as the U.S. has today...
Died. John Bassett Moore, 86, No. 1 U.S. authority on international law, first U.S. member of the World Court (1921-28); after long illness; in Manhattan. Moore, whose eight-volume Digest of International Law is the bible of the field, was no One-Wonder, argued back in 1933 that the "new" internationalism's efforts to guarantee peace merely assured the worldwide scope of future wars...
Perhaps the worst problem is the 300,000 refugees from guerrilla country. These peasants know that the Government has started the forced evacuation of a quarter-million civilians from the countryside because the Army cannot defend them, and carry out an offensive at the same time. And they wonder how they are going to live this winter crowded into mud huts, shanties and abandoned buildings on Government relief, which will provide them with less than a pound of bread and about 15? in cash a day. The huts in which they live, unlike the airfields, are not "winterized...
...other gridirons last week: ¶ At Memphis, once-proud Tennessee absorbed the worst beating (43-13) since Major Bob Neyland began coaching there 22 years ago. The man responsible for it: Mississippi's wonder-boy passer, Charley Conerly, 21, who scored two touchdowns, threw passes for the other four...