Word: help
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Sunset Boulevard. How a faded movie star (Gloria Swanson) attempts a comeback with the help of her kept man (William Holden); a sardonic commentary on Hollywood (TIME...
...mighty fine and correspondingly expensive new acquisition on show. It was a Portrait of a Young Man by Rembrandt, bought from the collection of London's late Otto Gutekunst for $130,000. The museum is tax-supported, but private citizens had pitched in $37,500 to help close its biggest deal...
...plane . . . and anticipated no traffic jam in the air. But I ran into one anyway. About 20 feet above the ground, a paratrooper falling faster than I dropped into my parachute canopy and collapsed it around my shoulders. As a result I plunged the last 20 feet without any help from the parachute." Traffic victim Vermillion wrote his story, was evacuated to Japan with a broken ankle...
...climax of Boss Kelly's career came when he played host to the 1940 Democratic National Convention in Chicago Stadium. To make sure that third-term plans did not fizzle for lack of help from him, he stationed Superintendent of Sewers Thomas D. Garry in a basement room fitted with an electrical pipeline to the stadium loudspeakers; on cue, Garry (ever since known as "The Voice from the Sewer") gave out with a clamorous "We want Roosevelt!" chant that was taken up by Kellymen posted about the floor, swelled to a convention-stampeding roar...
...Passos went to South America to see if there was any help for democracy in the younger societies of Brazil, Argentina and Chile. He found signs of pioneer strength in Brazil, but in Argentina as in Britain he found centralization leading toward tyranny. In Chile, he saw a democracy in danger of drowning with a heavy Communist minority tied to its neck...