Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andrei A. Gromyko was the Russian bureaucrat, stern, stubborn, suspicious. The dark, youngish (38) ambassador spoke in a monotone, looking neither to right nor left, as though talking into space or lecturing, as he used to before a Russian class in economics. He talked in Russian; at previous conferences he used English. He repeated himself; twelve times he used the phrase "postpone consideration of the question until the loth of April." He evaded rather than answered questions...
...boat-race flavor was missing. He remembered the time he bet his shirt against a lady's blouse-and won. "She took off her blouse right in the public bar," he said. "She was a sport, she was." For 30 years he had rented out window space on The Day, and usually quadrupled his sale of beer and short-order meals...
...Shakespeare's Globe Theater, where Henry V is being played. The florid acting of Olivier and his prelates (see cut) and the Elizabethan audience's vociferous reactions are worth volumes of Shakespearean footnotes. For the invasion, the camera, beautifully assisted by the Chorus (Leslie Banks), dissolves in space through a marine backdrop to discover a massive set such as Shakespeare never dreamed of - and dissolves backward in time to the year 1415. Delicately as a photo graphic print in a chemical bath, there emerges the basic style of Shakespearean cinema...
Pressagent Russell Birdwell got in early with a stop-the-atom-bomb-test editorial for which the Military Order of the Purple Heart bought the space, giving Copywriter Birdwell a mammoth byline. Headline: WHERE ARE WE GOING? Hapless newspaper and magazine executives only wished they knew...
...America's most distinguished newspaper" bought space in other Manhattan dailies last week to do a bit of bragging, in bigger type than its editorial department ever uses: THE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CIRCULATION HAS PASSED 1,000,000. The Times is now the seventh biggest Sunday paper in the land.* The Times could not refrain from pointing out, in its best morning-coat fashion, the difference between itself and other members of the Big Boys' club. It had reached its new high, said the Times, "without comics or other extraneous appeals...