Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many an adult Briton could bear-and it was too much for one W. Wright-Newsome. He took.his troubles, as Britons will, to the Times of London. Wrote he: "The BBC seems bent on turning the children into a new kind of drug addict. . . . The poor children grow more concerned from day to day about what Dick Barton . . . may do next than about their futures or the future of England. My neighbors confirm that when they turn [him] off . . . their children regard them as . . . tyrannic giants...
...Best Years of Our Lives. Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright and Harold Russell in Director William Wyler's skillful and heart-catching movie about the postwar world (TIME...
...every loan he makes to ex-servicemen. Russell finds the sledding tough and believes that his sympathetic parents and girlfriend have only pity for his plight. Andrews runs into trouble--with a floozy boomtown bride, with his soda-jerk job, and with March's young daughter, played by Teresa Wright, with whom he falls in love. All this adds up to considerable difficulty, and it takes Goldwyn & Co. exactly 163 minutes of screen time to wind the show up happily...
...last week, labor unions had filed suits demanding the whopping sum of $1,300,000,000. The suits came so fast that newspapers ran lists of companies sued in long columns, like disaster victims-which they well might be. The unions sued Bethlehem Steel for $200,000,000, Curtis-Wright for $29,000,000, National Biscuit Co. for $50,000,000, and prepared to sue the Ford Motor Co. for $300,000,000. In all, the total of suits might reach a stratospheric $6 billion...
...Best Years of Our Lives. Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright and Harold Russell in Director William Wyler's moving, honest, highly polished movie about the postwar world (TIME...