Word: broker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congratulations! Aristotle would be proud of you. Your article, "How to Sell a Novel," in TIME [Nov. 5] warmed the literary cockles of my heart. At least TIME still has standards of literature even if the New Yorker doesn't. Judging from your remarks Broker Clarke would have gained more if he'd slept through The Manatee...
Last week E. P. Button & Co., Inc. hoped that it had the answer. Last year it received a manuscript from tall, red-blonde, good-looking Nancy Bruff, 29, wife of Manhattan investment broker Edwin Thurston Clarke. Titled The Manatee, it was a tale of the life and loves of a whaler. Immediately Button's sensed another Forever Amber...
Furthermore, its ban on election contributions by unions had not prevented the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee from helping to swing the 1944 campaign by spending its own money in the primaries, acting as "broker" for contributions by individual union members in the election...
Mary Astor, 39, cinemactress whose purple diary, involving Playwright George Kaufman (George Washington Slept Here) made top tabloid news in 1936, announced that this winter Chicago Broker Thomas G. Wheelock would become her fourth husband...
Besides Dunn, the only other member of Ed Stettinius' team whom Byrnes kept in his old job was Assistant Secretary Will Clayton, an ex-cotton broker, millionaire, friend of Jesse Jones, and shrewd economic horse trader currently negotiating postwar loans with the British (see INTERNATIONAL). For Assistant Secretary in charge of Latin American affairs, he picked barrel-shaped Spruille Braden, who talked tough to the Argentines. For Assistant Secretary in charge of administration he chose 33-year-old Colonel Frank McCarthy, fresh off General Marshall's staff...