Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local boys are batting at a .250 clip, and if they can solve the problems poised by Cornell, this afternoon should be pleasant, if a bit cold...
Every day Sotheby secretaries clip the obituary pages of the London Times and send along the pertinent stories to the nine directors for porcelain, jade and Eastern art, medals and coins, manuscripts and so on, who must estimate the art-sale possibilities of the estate. Wilson himself has the reputation of being able to hear "a death rattle before the doctor is called." Actually it is largely Wilson's aristocratic soft sell and impressive presence (he is 6 ft. 4 in. tall) that brought to Sotheby's such tasks as the record-breaking Goldschmidt collection sale...
Stone and Mr. Michel Singher, the musical director, keep everything going at a good clip, so that a very long show doesn't drag. Mr. Lewis H. Smith was responsible for the costumes, and he, too, must be praised: they are very colorful and dashing...
...Publishing Co. after it dropped Collier's Magazine in 1956. In the five years since, Crowell-Collier has gone from losses to profits ($4,000,000 last year), and currently Erpf and his investing partners are adding new companies to Collier's at a two-a-year clip. Last week, for well under $1,000,000, Crowell-Collier bought New York's famed Bren-tano bookstore chain, which, like all conventional booksellers, has been hard hit by department-store and discount-house competition...
...second half, though, was a different story. Yale began to hit field goals at a torrid clip...