Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Communizing the nation. Before they come into direct conflict with the peasants on the issue of collective farms, Poland's Communists have decided that the first order of business is to break the influence and independence of the Roman Catholic Church. To that end, the Communists over the past several weeks have stepped up pressure on the church; the Vatican last week issued a long report detailing persecutions in Poland...
Grey-haired and 45 lbs. heavier than he was when he was pitching for the St. Louis Cardinals in the '30s 39-year-old Jay Hanna Dean is no radio & TV novice. His broadcasts of St. Louis ball games during the past nine years have put him in a position to spend each winter "huntin', fishin', and doin' nothin'." But his new job with the Yankees, over Du Mont's New York television station WABD, marks the first time he has had to handle commercials (Ballantine beer and Philip Morris cigarettes). "Some words...
...Detroit theaters. At 14, she became a vocalist for a band of high-school boys. At 15, tired of waiting to be discovered, she packed off with some musicians to dazzle Manhattan, which refused to be dazzled. Somebody gave her the fare to get home. After that, Betty, just past her first year in high school, went to school no more...
...Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) in a letter last week to U.S. Senators and the State Department. Objects of the charge were the supporters of the Conservative Party now in power in the South American republic of Colombia. During the past year or so, said Pattison, the Roman Catholic Conservatives had been systematically trying to drive the Protestants out by beatings, bombings, arson and intimidation...
...there has been just one Shakespeare and one Shaw. With The Cocktail Party, T. S. Eliot moved very close to the select circle of playwrights who can be read with pleasure. With The Lady's Not for Burning, Britain's Christopher Fry (TIME, April 3) edges past him into the circle itself. Written in verse with a fine sense of theater, The Lady is a play that needs no theater illusions to put a dazzle on its language. The dazzle is already there...