Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home this week from globe-trotting with husband Billy Rose, wrote to a Manhattan columnist about the wonders of world travel. Burbled Eleanor: "Rome . . . is in a class by itself . . . You meet people you know at every restaurant. Last night it was Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote; as we came into the hotel, Gregory Ratoff, and a few minutes ago, Ingrid Bergman...
...from the field of six-gun and college-gridiron thrillers, Street & Smith also launched such pulps as Top Notch and Ainslee's, made sales boom with the works of the firm's byliners, who included Theodore Dreiser, O. Henry, A. Conan Doyle and Bret Harte. Covers came from such artists as Norman Rockwell, James Montgomery Flagg and Howard Chandler Christy...
Born in the U.S., Kingman was taken to Hong Kong at the age of five, returned at 18 and went to work in a California overall factory. When the overall business palled, he did a hitch as a houseboy and another in a Chinese restaurant. Finally the WPA came along and gave him a chance to paint fulltime, started him toward becoming a bang-up success with his brush (TIME, Sept. 3, 1945). Since his discharge from the Army, where he served as a private in the OSS in Washington, he has been living in Brooklyn and teaching at Columbia...
...Chao was a Methodist when he came to the U.S. and finished his education at Vanderbilt University in 1917. Today he is an Anglican priest. He is well known in China as theologian and poet. When the Japanese jailed him in wartime for six months of solitary confinement and semi-starvation, he is said to have composed a new poem each day. At Amsterdam last summer he was elected one of the six presidents of the World Council of Churches...
Front Man. For almost 37 years, ever since he went to work in his father's Los Angeles jewelry store at 16, Harry Winston has suffered from what he calls "diamonditis." At 21, with $2,000 in his pockets, he came to Manhattan to buy & sell precious stones...