Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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President Truman stepped grimly before a bouquet of microphones and the broiler heat of television lights in the White House last week to explain the meaning of Korea in terms of dollars, of national sacrifice, and of world peace...
...Death of the Heart; but she has written some very poor book reviews. Kindness of heart that does her credit as a woman sometimes blinkers her as a critic. Many of these Collected Impressions are reprinted reviews recording her pleasure with some very ordinary books, and they will explain why her British fellow authors wait eagerly for her notices of their work. It is rarely that she lets anything pass without a kind word, quotable on a book jacket...
...committee was naturally anxious to ask Harry Russell to explain his panacea, and did its best to subpoena him. But Harry just couldn't be found; he sent word that he remembered what happened to Kansas City Gangster Charles Binaggio, who was killed after talking to the authorities. Neither could the other partners in the S & G be found, nor Dog Track Magnate William H. Johnston, the man who gave the governor the 150 Gs. Like all good things, crime investigation could be carried a little...
Such wholehearted concentration on his craft may partly explain Nebraska-born Brando's rapid rise to stardom. Without much formal education, he left home at 19 to make a name for himself on the stage. He was luckier than most. After a year's study at Manhattan's Dramatic Workshop and in summer stock, he was cast by Rodgers & Hammerstein as the son in their 1944 I Remember Mama. From then on, says Brando, "I never had to look for work...
Miniature Mobsters. Despite its fascinating subject, Tomboy is no great shakes as a novel. Its surface action is credible enough, but when Therapist-Novelist Ellson tries to explain what makes his little hoodlums run, he is much too pat and predictable. Unlike such other slum novelists as James T. Farrell (Studs Lonigan) and Nelson Algren (The Man with the Golden Arm), he lacks the gift for individualizing his miniature mobsters and thereby arousing sympathy for them. The chances are that Ellson, who is a better reporter than novelist, would have done just as well to turn his notes into...