Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...well acted by Barry Nelson) is a saxophone player from the sticks, an easy mark who is fleeced of almost everything but his hopes; the girl (Betty Field) is a dime-a-dancer with a past (which she is living in). Playwright Kanin's slickest trick is to portray their and their neighbors' troubles in the form of little variety turns-a band that plays jazz before swiping the boy's instruments, a vaudeville has-been who bounces into his act, and a landlady with a monologue...
...past decade, there has been no "atom-bomb secret" which Russian spies needed to steal. This fact has been asserted again & again by the Atomic Energy Commission and backed up by responsible U.S. physicists. The central "secret"-that an atom bomb can be constructed-has long been known to all the scientific world. Last week the AEC's files yielded documentary proof: Russian scientific papers on the subject, published in 1940, before the U.S. started its atom bomb project...
...early court calendars, state lunatic asylum records, governors' letters, city treasurers' reports, letters of U.S. Indian agents and manuscripts of colonial legislation (among them: the famed Massachusetts Body of Liberties of 1641 and the only perfect copy of An Abstract or Abridgment of the Laws Made and Past by William Penn...
Other members of the sterling areaitain: it prohibited imports of oil from the huge Bahrein refinery built by Standard Oil Co. of California and the Texas Co., whose products in the past have been considered by Britain as coming from the sterling area. Altogether, U.S. refineries faced a possible drop of 100,000 barrels a day in sales...
...event began, the usual klieg lights were dimmed by ten antiaircraft searchlights that threw 15-mile beams up over Grauman's Chinese Theater. Snappily uniformed attendants parked the arriving Cadillacs (many rented for the evening at $25). From the red-carpeted curb, past an awed crowd of sandwich-munching fans in bleachers around the entrance, stepped scores of stars into the arms of 14 pressagents, who whisked them to a platform for an amplified introduction. The standard response: "I hear this is one of the greatest pictures . . ." Inside were 32 special usherettes and four extra theater managers from other...