Word: avidity
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...Avid followers of "The Indian News" are sometimes disappointed when Charlie's dispatch is limited to "Not much news this week. Indian report in jail." But their fidelity is rewarded when, under the spell of a hangover, Charlie dips his blunt pencil into vitriol to discuss the Indian and the white man. Sample: "Indian scalp his enemy, but now the white people, he skin his friends. That he called Business...
...boxing world's greatest labor of love was ended. Nat Fleischer, the ring's most avid fan (TIME, Nov. 22), published his third and-according to him-last edition of the All-Time Ring Record Book (O'Brien Suburban Press, $5). It is an ungrammatical, unprofitable but authoritative history of fisticuffs going back to Cain v. Abel...
...deep-depression 1931, when Montgomery Ward was losing money, harried directors called in Salesman Avery as doctor. In twelve years he had changed a $5,700,000 loss (1932) into a $20,438,000 profit (1943). His formula, soon discovered by avid readers of Montgomery Ward catalogues: adding new luxury lines to Ward's stock in trade. Said he: "We no longer depend on hicks and yokels. We sell more than overalls and manure-proof shoes." Meanwhile the number of employes has jumped from...
...defense also hired Dr. Thomas Stanislaus Cusack, top-notch Brooklyn neuropsychiatrist, who interviewed the patient for an hour and a half last week, emerged to announce: "I have not as yet formulated any opinion." Homosexuality? The avid public, aided by an eager press, did not share Dr. Cusack's clinical restraint. Headlines billed Lonergan as a homosexual who seemed utterly unmoved by his wife's murder...
...Zanzibar and Morocco. The whole picture is easy, handsome, unabashed. It was a fantastic idea to festoon a completely unreal version of World War II around Comedian Danny Kaye. The result: one of the few pictures which seem to have been made for a huge audience of soldiers overseas, avid for such funny fare. (By month's end they will be seeing...