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Operations Are Continuing. After eleven days of the first U.S. offensive in World War II, the established facts made a scant background for the story to come...
Republicans named Kenneth S. Wherry, 50, State senator in 1928-32, an auto dealer in Pawnee City, who believes the Republican party "will not adjourn politics now or ever." Genial, able Businessman Ken Wherry has for several years been a background force in Nebraska politics...
Edward Plumb's background music is expertly keyed into the production, but none of Bambi's four songs (best: Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song) is notable. Some innovations are. For the first time, Disney has done his backgrounds in oils instead of watercolors. The result is striking. The russet reds, browns, bright yellows, make autumn look like autumn. Each season has a special color impact. The colors are softer, more alive and, with the aid of the multiplane camera, give the picture solidity, the forest a three-dimensional depth...
...more facts per paragraph in TIME-more significant, difficult, complicated facts about industry and finance and politics and war-than there are in any other widely read magazine we know about. And no reader can really get full value out of TIME unless he brings to TIME a background of education far above average...
...skyrockets and 1,000 candles, but it caught fire. Undaunted, Peale invented "an ingenious mechanism" for dropping a laurel wreath on the brow of George Washington, who had to put up with that sort of thing wherever he went. The launching of the Constitution was staged "with marine background scenery bordering on the marvelous, with a final climactic picture of Niagara Falls." In Americana and Elutheria Benjamin Franklin stepped out of lightning-forked clouds with nis newly invented rod and handed it to France, who electrocuted Tyranny and Pride with it and revived prostrate Liberty "by the application of Science...