Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President could hardly have found more encouraging words for an ally who, perching perilously on Russia's border, supplies oil to the West and depends on military aid from the U.S. If the warmth of Harry Truman's welcome was any indication, slim, soft-spoken young (30) Mohamed Reza Shah Pahlevi also seemed in a good way of getting the economic aid he was frankly looking for, to help finance Iran's ambitious seven-year plan for modernizing the ancient land of the Persians (TIME...
...York. Helen Brown (of Columbus, Ohio, and Miss Rhumba Queen of 1947) is being thrown out of her room because hse has no money. Her landlady hints that her reputation is not without stain. As she is packing to leave, the new tenant moves in. It is a young saxophone player from Minneapolis, a clean-cut young man. He tells her she can share the room with him. She thinks he's an innocent rube, he thinks she's a super-cynic...
...weeks go by, Helen drops her unsavory friends under the influence of her unadmitted love for the musician. Then, just as his big chance comes, his instruments are stolen. Will Helen save the day? How will she get money fro new instruments? Will the young man realize her Sacrifice and forgive her thus compromising his Minneapolis mores...
...Kanin has been very fortunate in the actors he has obtained for the roles of Helen Brown and Gus Hammer, the saxophone player. Betty Field has the part of the embittered young "model," as she calls herself, and she is wonderful in the part. Miss Field is unexcelled in the business of naturalistic acting and no matter how tough she talks she is still the substance of feminity. Barry Nelson as Gus Hammer, is also very good, with his half-articulate gestures, his rocking stance, and his fresh enthusiasm...
...pledge required of all Naval Science students at Harvard was first questioned two weeks ago by the Young Progressives who have organized an unofficial committee of college groups to investigate the loyalty checks...