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...shorthand champion who used to take dictation from Bernard Baruch. Now he takes it from nobody. Billy Rose, who is about the size of a Broadway boutonniere, is a self-made showman, songwriter (Million Dollar Baby) and saloonkeeper. He is also a zealous art collector. Last week the bantam Barnum, jack of many a theatrical trade, was mastering a new one. As an offbeat Broadway columnist who pays to be published, he had received offers from two newspaper syndicates who wanted to pay him instead...
Riding about the pitiful ruins and damp, weedy shambles of recaptured Manila, G.I. jeep drivers used to refer to the Kweezon Bridge, Kweezon Boulevard, etc. However they mangled the name, sharp, dapper, bantam-sized Manuel Luis Quezon, (rhymes with stays on), late President of the Commonwealth, left his mark on the Philippines...
Money gushed from unexpected springs. The bantam valley town of Jessup (pop. 6,000) sent the janitor of its four-room schoolhouse into Scranton with $19,000 dug out of attic trunks and sugar bowls. A team of 50 determined housewives left their breakfast dishes in the sink, stuck their feet in front doors until they had raised $300,000. Local 18 of the United Auto Workers (C.I.O.), mostly unemployed, sold $87,000 worth of bonds...
...Britain was worried about where she could sell autos, she could find a red-hot market in the automaking but auto-hungry U.S. In a matter of hours last week, Manhattan's Fergus Motors Inc. sold out its stock (30) of bantam-sized Standards. The price, awaiting OPA approval, will be between...
...Harper, Random House, Book-of-the-Month Club, Scribner and Little, Brown, who ganged up to keep Field from buying the big reprint house of Grosset & Dunlap, have ganged up again-this time with giant Curtis Publishing Co.-to put out 25? paper-back Bantam Books in opposition to Field's Pocket Books...