Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S thanks to Connoisseur Schoonmaker for correcting and completing the box score...
...fair's biggest drawing-card was "Texas' Own" Mary Martin, back home to sing the Ethel Merman role in a roadshow edition of Annie Get Your Gun.* Twice a day, Mary played to S.R.O. crowds in the Fair Park Auditorium. Her nearest box-office rival: the Borden Co.'s famed cow, Elsie...
...Members of the National Funeral Directors Association met in Boston for their 66th annual convention. Some exhibits of new equipment for the trade: the "Jewel Box" ("a gem of a casket") with a semicircular peephole and well-padded velvet and satin interior; the "Blickens 4 in 1 Positioner," an elaborate arrangement of clamps and bars for forcing a rigid body into a suitable position of repose...
...ending never would have happened had Joan Webster remained in character as the girl who intended to marry for wealth rather than love. Either Miss Webster really didn't know where she was going all along, or else J. Arthur Rank diverted her in the direction of the American box office...
Singapore (Universal-International) had a well-publicized Manhattan opening at which the first 100 women to get to the box office* were awarded one string of pearls each. The pearls were synthetic. So was the picture...