Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been his only activity. He has had a radio station, Radio Ariel, over which many an Argentine and Paraguayan exile has broadcast. Every afternoon Luisito goes to the Café Montevideo on Avenida 18 Julio to gossip over coffee. He drives his car at high speed, likes to box. After hours, he takes his ease with his wife and three children at a small farm outside the capital...
Shanghai Movie Producer Wu Hsin-tsai had a brilliant idea. He would produce a comedy about barbers; Shanghai's 50,000 barbers would flock to it; they would talk about it in their barbershops. If each mentioned it to ten customers, box-office returns at $10,000 CN per seat (about 20? U.S.) would be incalculable...
Last week Producer Wu gave in, agreed to cut some of the offending scenes. His scheme had worked, but in reverse. The oversensitive barbers had unwittingly publicized the film all over China. The box-office take would be huge...
...second night there were lines at the box office and nobody walked...
Most of these best-sellers would fail to outlive the month in which they were published. Where were the writers of solid reputation, and what were they up to? TIME found some of them, asked them some how-now questions (see box...