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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bell assured him it was. They talked for and hour and a half, then and there, and Bell saw Costello for several hours on two other occasions. Costello was friendly and talkative and expounded his own viewpoint about himself at length...
...careless youth of the cinema, long before the first feature-length film, the U.S. screen was as free as the U.S. press. Then, in 1907, Chicago gave birth to movie censorship. Last week, after decades of kowtowing by a timid film industry, enemies of censorship made a strong bid to end the reign of censors now entrenched in seven states and 50 cities...
...hall, 25 elders and the parish priest were solemnly deciding who should play the 16 major roles of the 300-year-old Passion Play, scheduled to begin its first season in 16 years next May 21. As each part was filled, the town crier-a young man with shoulder-length blond hair-wrote the names on a blackboard for the people...
Otherwise they met at meals, usually with several guests present, or at receptions, with several hundred. Life for the President became so crowded that his sons soon gave up going to their father for advice; he seldom had time to talk with them at any length...
...Time for Christmas. The full-length portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt is the picture that dominates the book. "I did not want my husband to be President," she states, probably to the surprise of thousands. "As I saw it, this meant the end of any personal life of my own . . . The turmoil in my heart and mind was rather great." Nonetheless, "I never mentioned my feelings on the subject...