Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Catlett Marshall's convictions is that all-out mobilization should be ordered only at the certain prospect of war, and he is not yet convinced that war is inevitable. He often speaks of the disastrous reaction that would set in among trained but idle troops if a great buildup is not followed by a shooting war. He worries about the Russians just sitting back, not fighting, but watching the U.S. bankrupt itself...
Holding for what? Conceivably the Chinese were awaiting a further buildup of their forces before a major push. In the face of the Korean winter and the strength of the U.N. armies facing them, this seemed unlikely. A better guess was that the Chinese in North Korea were there to pin down supplies that might otherwise be used in Indo-China, and to extort political concessions from...
RELIGIOUS MUSIC GETS BUILDUP AS SALES SOAR, squawked a headline in the show-business tradesheet Variety. Beginning with Our Lady of Fatima (TIME, Sept. 25), of which there are currently at least ten recordings, faith has become a popular subject on Tin Pan Alley. The "diskeries," as Variety calls the record companies, are hunting for new items...
Call Me Madam (music & lyrics by Irving Berlin; book by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse; produced by Leland Hayward) opened with an advance sale of over $1,000,000 and the sort of fabulous buildup that can all too easily backfire. But Call Me Madam, while far from stupendous, is perfectly satisfactory-and at least can boast of one stupendous performer, Ethel Merman...
...slyly deprives his wife of her lover onto that of the man who falls in love with his mere convenience of a wife, Playwright Verneuil less enriches the enjoyment than prolongs the agony. The whole story, being almost as involved as it is predictable needs two or three buildup scenes for every one that proves at all entertaining. In spots, Verneuil fans Affairs with fairly lively comments about life and breezy cackle about Washington; as the bride, Celeste Holm is deft and bright when not forced to be coy; as the scheming old statesman, Reginald Owen is urbanity itself...