Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this twist on an old theme, Producer Sydney Box (The Seventh Veil) and Director Arthur Crabtree have built a wryly humorous study of lower-middle-class life in a London suburb. The camera moves with a sharp, knowing eye from the vulgar pretensions of tea in the Sunbury parlor to Herbert's wonderful kite straining and swooping in a fine summer breeze. Though Herbert and his wife are happily reconciled (over a kite string on the commons), the movie never compromises with the silver cord. As Herbert's mom, Hermione Baddeley gives a viciously distinguished performance...
...reorganization plan will put subcommittees in charge of the Union's common room and recreational facilities, including the television room, meeting rooms, and the proposed game room and pool parlor...
Close-Mouthed Wives. While the presidents were in their counting house, their wives were in the parlor, discussing bread & honey. At a special session for the ladies, Mrs. Albin C. Bro, whose husband is president of Frances Shinier College, complained that a wife was nothing but a "janitor without portfolio ... At dinner parties, she must display the brilliance of an Einstein . . . Her basic rule in entertaining should be to do everything so well that all the trustees' wives will be proud of her-but not so well that her teas will run the risk of being distinguished . . . She should...
...Parlor War. The television price war (TIME, Jan. 3) got hotter. RCA unveiled its big new 16-in. set at a price of $495 ($200 below today's closest competitive model). Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp.'s President Benjamin Abrams promised a 16-in. table model "within 60 days" for only $400, and slashed the present price of the loin. table model by $30. The Hallicrafters Co. said it would do even better; it promised a 16-in. remote control receiver...
Speculation Is Wonderful. One thing soon became clear: Harry Truman had not talked over his Eddie Jacobson speech with the front-parlor boys in the State Department, or the political handymen in his "Kitchen Cabinet." And no key Administration official was talking of a letup in the four-way squeeze on Russia: the airlift, the Marshall Plan, the upcoming $15 billion new arms budget, the proposed North Atlantic security pact. The best "educated guess" that his advisers could make was that Harry Truman, all on his own, was just trying a little propaganda campaign to start a little mutual distrust...