Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Francis Chapin to Chicago as an art student in the first place was a conviction that the East, for all its galleries, dealers and big reputations, was dangerous for a painter's individuality. At Chicago's Art Institute "an artist had more chance to develop his own style," was not likely to be turned into a picayune Picasso or "little Kuniyoshi...
...Western Union employees, many branch-office managers. Records indicated that agents had been transmitting horse-bets to the syndicate in return for a 25% commission. The seized records included a copy of a wire from an East Coast Western Union manager to the syndicate: "I believe I could develop some business for you here and in surrounding towns. Just what kind of a proposition do you offer?" Another manager was so grateful for his commission on bets that he offered to send a crate of cantaloupes to the bookies...
Against the sordid backgrounds of an anonymous big U.S. city, the film deftly introduces its main characters one by one, starts to develop them with quick strokes while linking them together into the burglary plot. It gives a fascinating account of Jaffe's precise planning to burrow underground into a jewelry store at night, and his businesslike recruitment of personnel for the job. With very little dialogue, it pictures the jewel theft in a long, intimately detailed sequence of torturing suspense. Then a doublecross explodes the mastermind's plan...
...case differed in one important respect from the Hiss-Chambers case that was to develop more than three years later. There was no evidence that Jaffe had passed on any of the documents to the Soviet agents. As far as Government agents could tell, he was using the stolen information only to advance the cause of Communism in Asia in his magazine. Actually, his most peculiar and mostly private magazine was read with considerable respect at that time in some quarters in the State Department. One of his articles, suggesting that the U.S. encourage a Communist movement in enemy Japan...
Last week 86% of South Korea's 8,300,000 voters went to the polls in the first election since the South Korean republic got its independence in 1948. The U.S.-supported nation had yet to develop a strong party system. Nearly two-thirds of the candidates for election to the National Assembly ran as independents...