Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a new Cabinet was in power, and because it comprised a few comparatively subtle politicians, no slogan was coined, no promise made. But like seasoned troupers, Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai and his assistants ad-libbed while busily contriving how to end the farce and bring down the curtain...
Court of Missing Heirs is the stoutly guarded radio feature of James F. Waters, a onetime Chicago lawyer, and Alfred E. Shebel, onetime ad agency man. They worked it out in 1935, peddled it for two years until Skelly Oil bought it in 1937. They went off the air in 1938 until CBS put it back on for Ironized Yeast last month. They have a field staff of five, digging up romantic and poignant cases. Neither has made a will...
...decision of its playwrights, Ben Hecht and Gene Fowler, to lie in state in separate coffins at a funeral parlor. For Billy Rose, Maney concocted an advertisement for "100 bona fide noblemen" to serve as dancing partners at Rose's Fort Worth Frontier Centennial. "In answering," read the ad, "submit photographs in uniform, with orders, ribbons and decorations evident. . . . Bogus counts, masqueraders and descend ants of the Dauphin will get short shrift...
WHAT NIGHT WILL BRING-Hilea Bailey-Crime Club ($2). An arthritic private investigator and his pretty daughter crack a case involving murders and theft of campaign ideas in a big Midwest ad agency. Some readers may be irked by the highly colored agency background, but the plot is credible, the humor pleasant, the atmosphere creepy...