Word: agented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept irom him by history ("war is contemptuous of love"), was reported seriously considering going into a nunnery. "Will she say to the world, farewell?" throbbed the New York Journal-American. "Will she take the last step and enter?" At week's end, neither she nor her press-agent was sure...
...word went round Jersey Joe Walcott's training camp that Champion Joe Louis was worried. He actually sent a spy over to scout the enemy. But when the champ's agent arrived, Walcott's men gave him the eye-and the bum's rush. They had him halfway out the door before Jersey Joe intervened. "Let him watch," he ordered. Then Challenger Walcott, using pillowy 16-oz. gloves, neatly flattened a sparring partner. Said he: "Tell Nicholson to take that back to Louis...
When his literary agent icily described his novel as "worthless," Carnegie's "heart almost stopped." But, plucking up his courage, he decided to 'borrow the ideas of a lot of other writers" and make them into "the best book on public speaking . . . ever . . . written." This book flopped, too, and Carnegie decided that instead of borrowing from, or acting like others, "you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life." Out of the depths of his heart and personal experience, he drew How to Win Friends and Influence People. Today, wiry, white-maned Dale Carnegie...
...beginning of the 19th Century, Artillery Armes (that is the name the author has wished on him) gets mixed up in Florida's trouble under Spanish rule. Golden-haired Artillery works as a U.S. secret agent, but he is pretty confused about which side he is on. The reader will share his confusion. But nothing much is left unexplained about Artillery's love life: he oscillates between fair, proud Beth (daughter of a wealthy merchant) and dark, passionate Dauna (a slave girl). In the big emotional climax, after buying Dauna in a slave mart, Artillery whips...
...inexpensive color process, the invention of the Roux brothers seemed too good to be true. Moviemakers had seen too many processes come & go to get excited. But research cameramen have long worked to perfect a process in which the lens and not the film would be the principal color agent. Up to now, experiments with such lenses have not worked out commercially. Hollywood wanted to hear more...