Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsa Maxwell, who never wears jewels at the smartly publicized parties she gives at others' expense, was judged in Manhattan's City Court to owe a $2,980.74 jewelry bill, ordered to fork over the $996.47 in her checking account to be applied against the judgment. Elsa said that she had helped sell a $30,000 emerald to Cinema Producer Jack Warner, took the $2,980.74 in jewelry instead of a commission. "There are dozens of society women," she said, "who sell jewels on commission...
From bloody Iwo Jima, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, veteran of the Aleutians and Tarawa, last week radioed this account of a night in a front-line Marine hospital...
...Eric Johnston. And even non-Communist friends of the Soviet sharply criticized him for attempting to measure by U.S. standards a very different set of values and circumstances. But most readers are likely to accept and appreciate Report on the Russians for what it is: an honest, highly personal account of how the Russians (whom he liked) and the Soviet system (which he disliked) looked to a seasoned newsman who has seen a lot of the world but kept the basic viewpoint of his native Kansas. Readers will also find the book (which corrects some errors in the Digest version...
...Jima last week at least 40,000 Marines fought to the death with 20,000 entrenched Japanese in an area so constricted that the troops engaged averaged twelve men to an acre. Ashore with the marines, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod radioed his account of the battle...
Richard Wright, 36, is generally accounted the most gifted living American Negro writer. His new book makes it clearer than ever that he has one of the most notable gifts in U.S. writing, black or white: a narrative style that is simple, direct, almost completely without pretense or decoration, yet never flat. In Black Boy, that narrative tells the story of his first 1 8 years, in Natchez and Jackson, Miss., Elaine, Ark. and on Beale Street in Memphis. The story is a brilliant account of how it feels to be a sensitive Negro growing up in the U.S. South...