Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State George Marshall had returned from Moscow reciting the story of the Soviet effort to seize the economy of Central Europe, of the Soviet Union's negation of every U.S. effort to make that economy selfsupporting. His references to Stalin's bland remarks about reaching ultimate agreements (TIME, May 5) were deadpan; Marshall himself reflected little optimism...
Russia might stage an astute political retreat, while Communist propaganda would tap-tap on the U.S. conscience. Moscow indicated the line. Said Izvestia, in a bland and self-righteous editorial: "What is such monopolistic 'American responsibility' but a smoke screen for plans of expansion? Dilations to the effect that the United States is 'called upon to save' Greece and Turkey from expansion on the part of the so-called 'totalitarian states' are not new. Hitler also referred to the Bolsheviks when he wanted to open the road to conquests for himself...
Taken all together, the Ball measures represented such a drastic rewriting of the ground rules passed by the New Deal (and by labor considered sacred) that the astute Bob Taft backed away. Harold Stassen, who came before the committee with a bland legislative pudding of his own, was solemnly aghast at the pungent recipe concocted by his old friend Ball. No more than half of Ball's measures would ever be accepted by the Senate committee. The industry-wide bargaining and closed-shop prohibitions would almost certainly be dumped. The bitter pill would be sugarcoated...
...burlesque-show memory. Hirshfield was always having model trouble. For his Lion painting he tried the zoo, pictures at the public library, stuffed specimens at the American Museum of Natural History. He wound up with a cheap, toyshop lithograph, painted a lion with a tailored mane and a bland, human face that could do for a self-portrait of Hirshfield...
Died. Sidney Toler, 74, veteran stage & screen actor, onetime leading man to Julia Marlowe, best known in recent years for his bland cinemacting of Chinese Detective Charlie Chan; of intestinal cancer; in Hollywood...