Word: shop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each bookseller believed that the rakeoff was his personal brainchild and sent postcards to students announcing the "exclusive bargain" at his particular shop...
...brassy U.S. defense lawyer to England on a tough murder case, and then watches him stumble through a baffling maze of provincial customs and courtroom procedure. The plot is predictable, but Producer Joan Harrison and Director-Star Robert Montgomery wring some wry chuckles from their bull-in-the-china-shop situation, and keep the story moving at a lively clip...
...Class of 1949 Album, still in the print shop stage, will finally appear this fall, four months after the 01/09/1950 Album...
...Less than a week after a committee had set up shop in Manhattan to purge the nation's airwaves of suspected Communists and their fellow travelers, committee members began explaining that it was all a terrible misunderstanding. Mrs. Hestor McCullough, who had helped put Actress Jean Muir out of a job by protesting to her studio (TIME, Sept. 4), announced that she would continue protesting whenever she saw fit as an individual but not as member of any purge committee. The editors of Counterattack, who had assembled the charges of Communist leanings against Actress Muir in the first place...
...stopped off in a Warsaw record shop, got an earful of U.S. popular songs of the day. Kostelanetz has forgotten what the tunes were, but he remembers that he was bowled over by their "dynamism and melody." Since then, he has been convinced that "popular music is good music," that composers like "Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers and Berlin can and should be treated as seriously as Beethoven or Brahms...