Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marks. Finally, in the East, someone mentioned the word that TV fears more than any other. Baltimore's Catholic Review, accusing NBC's adapters of "outdoing Mr. Poe himself" in televising The Fall of the House of Usher, warned: "When one considers that young children view television, it amounts to something that needs censorship...
...still more important discoveries awaited the investigators. Napoleon's soldiers had missed one tomb entirely; within it lay undisturbed the young Prince Fernando de la Cerda, eldest son of Alfonso X, who died in 1275. He lay on embroidered cushions, a jeweled toque on his head, a jeweled belt around him, his hand still gripping a jeweled sword hilt...
...four: J. Walter Thompson Co.; Young & Rubicam, Inc.; Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc.; N. W. Ayer...
Holiday Affair (RKO Radio) is an unlikely but likable little romantic comedy adroitly warmed with Christmas sentiment. It confronts a confused young war widow (Janet Leigh), working as a department store comparison shopper in the holiday rush, with a choice of two suitors: a safe & sound lawyer (Wendell Corey) who has wooed her for two years, and a happy-go-lucky toy clerk (Robert Mitchum) who tries to win her in a week...
...Warrior, the story of luckless King Harold and the Norman Conquest. The parade of Italian novels continued throughout the year, most of them reflecting the bitterness and weariness of Italian life. Much-touted Alberto Moravia's The Woman of Rome was a sexy, glibly written story about a young prostitute that lacked entirely the large significance claimed for it. Stronger and better stuff was Elio Vittorini's In Sicily, a sad, smoldering look at Italian poverty and hopelessness under Mussolini. It came with a blessing from Ernest Hemingway, who had postponed his own long-awaited postwar novel...