Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desk in wet weather. Publisher Nicholson spent $350,000 in a new plant and equipment, boosted salaries, hired as editor Reporter Clayton Fritchey, who had won a Pulitzer citation for the Cleveland Press by sending six grafting police officers to prison. Under Editor Fritchey, the Item became the best-dressed newspaper in New Orleans with its short, snappy stories and eye-catching pictures. Circulation climbed from 67,000 to 97,000. This week 45-year-old Editor Fritchey got-and accepted-an invitation from Tommy Stern to stay on and keep his present staff...
...best way to deal with them is to kill them before they get their wings. Last week Dutton's fighters were spreading poisoned bait by airplane over as many square miles as possible in the outbreak areas. Every day 53 pilots were flying 35 airplanes in relays, as long as daylight lasted...
Next step is to watch the weather and its effect on the young hoppers. The migratory species are semidesert insects that thrive best under dry conditions; a cold rain or a late frost can wipe them out. So can their natural enemies (other insects, birds, etc.)-which the Government's experts keep track...
...most ballyhooed hot-weather opening since Composer Berlin's bang-up This Is the Army in 1942. This is not the army. This is not even a very exciting summer event. Miss Liberty has much that is sound Broadway about it, but little of Berlin at his best, and nothing of Sherwood...
...needs. The young people in the cast-Mary McCarty, Allyn McLerie, Eddie Albert-are all pleasant enough, but their roles are definitely on the stale side. What does most to relieve the sameness and tameness of Miss Liberty are Jerome Robbins' gay, rowdy dances. They are much the best thing in the show...