Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumania's boss-lady, Comrade Ana Pauker, tangled most bluntly with the West. When Britain's Sir Charles Peake spoke of the need for reciprocity between nations, she cried: "We know you. We had you around for a long time, and we don't want you again...
Theodore Olin Thackrey used to be managing editor of the New York Post. Then he married his boss, Dorothy Schiff Backer, and became the co-publisher and co-editor. A fortnight ago, Co-Editor Thackrey dashed off "An Appeal to Reason," complaining of his irritation and dismay "at the intemperate and increasingly violent reaction to Henry Wallace's campaign...
Last week the boss, signing herself "Co-Publisher and Co-Editor," took Ted Thackrey's space to tell readers that her husband had been speaking only for himself, "not committing the Post Home News* to the support ... of Henry A. Wallace." And so far as sincere and reasoned grounds were concerned, "I, a sincere liberal, take issue with Mr. Thackrey's reasoning . . . 1) because Mr. Wallace's own position is not always clear and because he, himself, does not always give the impression of being a sincere and reasoned person ... 2) the Progressive Party is Communist-dominated...
...business fraught with hazardous gambling and desperate financial uncertainties, Betty Grable comes about as close as Hollywood can get to a surefire, gilt-edged investment. The profits from her movies (something like $15 million over the last eight years) have left her boss, Producer Darryl Zanuck, free to dabble with such weighty but financially risky topics as political history (Wilson), lynching (The Ox-Bow Incident) and anti-Semitism (Gentleman's Agreement...
...Grable the answer is yes. "I have what I want," she says, "and I am what I want to be." When her contract at Fox expired recently, she annoyed businesslike husband Harry by signing a new one with no raise in salary and no provision for outside pictures. When Boss Zanuck, who sometimes begins to believe his own press-agents, grows overambitious for Betty, she recalls him to reality. "Betty," he told her excitedly in 1945, "you're going to get the break of your life. I want you to play Sophie in The Razor's Edge." Betty...