Word: keep
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Provisional Central Committee of Japan's Communist Party was disturbed by police efforts to keep tabs on top Communists whom General MacArthur barred from political activity last spring (TIME, June 19). To insure that lesser Communist fry should not betray their underground leaders through carelessness, the committee issued a directive on how to cope with police shadowing...
...discovered by the suspect, keep cool; act nonchalant...
...leading entry as of last week was a Tommy Tucker recording called I'm Praying to St. Christopher ("who watches land and sea, To keep you, darling, safe from harm wherever you may be"). Also riding high on the spiritual wave: It's No Secret ("what God can do"), by Cowboy-Singer Stuart Hamblen, a recent Billy Graham convert. Columbia has just released a musical version of the 23rd Psalm sung by Vocalist Doris Day. Scheduled: The House Where I Worship, sung by Rosemary Clooney and Guy Mitchell...
...Curious Savage (by John Patrick; produced by the Theatre Guild & Russell Lewis & Howard Young) tackles a tempting and dangerous theme. The scene is an elegant mental institution, the story chiefly about an eccentric rich widow (amusingly played by Lillian Gish) whose stepchildren want to keep her from disposing capriciously of their father's fortune. Before being confined, she has contrived to hide the money; and the play proceeds at several interrogatory levels: 1) a farcical one of Where Is the Fortune?; 2) a psychological one of How Mad Is the Lady?; 3) a philosophical one of Is Sanity...
...oldest is the West Po'kchop Railroad, which runs almost perpendicularly up one side of Onnecessary Mountain and straight down the other. A stiffnecked industrialist named Stubborn J. Tolliver built this suicidal grade to satisfy a boyish dream of his son, Idiot J. Tolliver. To keep "his drooling boy happy, Tolliver still starts one train a week up the tracks. Except in those instances when Capp installs switchbacks in the line, each train falls back with a crash, killing all its passengers...