Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passport to Pimlico" is a British situational comedy designed quite obviously to humor a British public that is sick of rationing and restrictions. An unexploded German bomb suddenly blows up, revealing a treasure cache in which there is a document proving that the borough of Pimlico in London does not belong to Britain. Consequently, police protection, ration cards and other legal instruments become suspended, and the inhabitants, for a few days, are sovereigns unto themselves. Though Stanley Holloway offers some excellent touches as the exofficio mayor of Pimlico, most of the scenes are only moderately amusing to an American audience...
...exhibition was sponsored by an Independence, Mo. art patron and good friend of Harry Truman named Blevins Davis, who had been impressed by contemporary German painting while on a tour last summer. Confined to artists under 40, it offered top prizes of $1,000 and $700, plus trips to the U.S., Rome and Paris, drew 3,600 entries. A ten-man inter national jury had hung only 175 of the canvases submitted, but prune as they would, they could not rid the show of its generally sterile atmosphere...
...sifted pooches, were considerably more formidable in size and mien. Finalist Judge George H. Hartman moved from the sleek pointer (best of the sporting dogs) to the shaggy Afghan (best of the hounds), examining each dog with quick hand and practiced eye. When he got to the handsome imported German shepherd (working-dog winner), the handler slipped off the lead and the dog stood unattended, facing the judge with a pride and pose that would have looked good...
These words of sage advice, sung to her mirror image by the aging Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, are largely ignored by grand-opera stars. But to 61-year-old German-born Soprano Lotte Lehmann, who for 25 years sang them with unsurpassed eloquence, they have long had the weight of dogma...
Early man-made quartz crystals were too small to be useful. During World War II the Germans did better, but not well enough. Last week Dr. Albert C. Walker of the Bell Telephone Laboratories told a gathering of scientists in Ithaca how Bell engineers had improved the German process until it grows quarter-pound crystals in only two weeks...