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With just enough changes to avoid libel suits, "Citizen Kane" is the story of William Randolph Hearst. As a skeleton for his plot, Welles uses the interviews of a reporter for a Luce-like organization, who is trying to find out the meaning of the great man's last word. Thinking that this word, "rosebud," might be the key to the whole life of Charles Foster Kane, the reporter speaks to Kane's second wife, his business manager, and his best friend. Thus the story unfolds in snatches and flashbacks, often going over the same scenes twice, but from different...
Herself celebrated for claw-sharp quotes, Dorothy surprised the cast with her gentleness. With Evans, she fled the theater between acts to avoid stares by the curious, acknowledged compliments with a mild "Bless you." Said one actress: "She's sweet. She's even shy. She's a love...
...network board has discovered a commercial station in Michigan that is using the same call letters--WHRV, and it wants to avoid the confusion that might result with two stations using the same letters...
...everything you can to avoid the amusements and noise and the business of men. Keep as far away as you can from the places where they gather to cheat and insult one another, to exploit one another, or to mock one another with their false gestures of friendship. Do not read their newspapers if you can help it. Be glad if you can keep beyond reach of their radios...
Downing holds that a knowledge of the exchange regulations and currency values of each country in which the student visits is a sure way to save money and avoid trouble at the customs office. Since American money brings considerably more than par value on the black market in certain countries, currency regulations require tourists to show customs inspectors how much they hold in travellers' checks, dollars, and local currencies, wherever they cross a border...