Word: collier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most recent installments of "Why I Broke With Roosevelt" in Collier's,* Farley sounds as though he still hurt in every one of his 216 pounds at the very memory...
...capacity for comedy which is exploited just as crudely, but oftener and more successfully. Several of her missteps as a stage neophyte are good for laughs, and there are some funny scenes about moviemaking, in which she is stoutly abetted by William Demarest as a director, by Constance Collier as a high-nosed old ham actress, and by such old masters of journeyman slapstick as Chester Conklin and Snub Pollard. There is some faint hint of the toughness of the people who made the old movies, and a fair suggestion of the way they did their work, like children making...
...Collier's last week, Big Jim Farley swung into a second lap of his "Why I Broke With Roosevelt" series with recollections of some candid talks he had had with F.D.R. about fellow Democrats...
...Farley made one of the most effective U.S. political teams of all time. Farley did the spadework; F.D.R. sowed the political and sociological gardens. Then the team fell apart. Last week, 26 months after Roosevelt's death, Big Jim began to explain "Why I Broke with Roosevelt," in Collier's magazine...
...Manhattan, after two years' planning and plowing through thousands of dollars of Marshall Field's and other men's money, Saturday Review of Literature Editor Norman Cousins last week pulled the sheet over his projected leftist Collier's-type magazine, to be known as USA. Costs were too high now, he said. He hoped to try again...