Word: breakups
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...actual breakup still seemed a long way off. On the slow road ahead, the High Commission has to work through mountains of technical procedure. It has not even totted up Farben's assets-a preliminary to any sale...
Died. Frank R. McNinch, 76, member (under President Hoover) and chairman (under President Roosevelt) of the Federal Power Commission, later head of the Federal Communications Commission, longtime foe of bigness in the power industry, the first to administer the "death-sentence clause" which forced the breakup of the big public utilities holding companies; of pneumonia; in Washington...
...Alice Thompson, who was promoted from executive editor (over Mrs. V.'s head) only last spring (TIME, May 16). Explained Mrs. Thompson: "Helen thinks that Seventeen is not only her baby-and, true, it was her idea-but also her property." The two old friends were taking the breakup hard; neither was speaking to the other...
...forced breakup and final reunion of-families gives the movie an emotional core that is undeniably affecting. But tearful farewells can pall when protracted and repeated as they are in this script, and Director Negulesco's treatment of emotional scenes, notably at the picture's end, is so contrived to wring the last tear from the audience that it comes perilously close to cheapening them...
...neighbors on San Francisco's Geary Boulevard were excited this week about the breakup of the Fosters, who have been married for 25 years. But it was not the usual kind of family breakup. Don Foster was setting out to be a monk and, if all goes well, his wife May will become...