Word: colors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...importance of these classifications in a totalitarian state is obvious. A Hungarian applying for a job, a marriage license, a business permit, a ration card, or anything requiring public regulation will be dealt with according to the color and contents of his card...
...crown is slipping. After 14 years of trying, This Week magazine has finally passed it in ad revenues. In 1948, according to figures out last week, This Week carried $16,695,628 worth of ads to the Weekly's $16,466,061. (At $24,900 for a four-color page, This Week's ad rate topped all U.S. magazines.*) The Weekly still led in circulation with 9,410,561 copies, but This Week was less than 550,000 behind...
...Christian Century lamented that "the Roman Catholic Church, with its pageantry and color, will have an appeal in television which the Protestant churches lack." The telegenic Catholic Church seemed to have its own problems. In December, worshipers in the New York metropolitan area were warned that watching Mass over TV was not an acceptable substitute for attending Mass in person...
...rare when a brother act pays off in sports, but since the end of the war the brothers Foster Adam, Henry, and Hugh--have been the color cards in varsity squash coach Jack Barnaby's hand. The situation may well continue for another year...
...such-a-hungry yearning for success on Broadway, getting there was not much more difficult than what a Porter lyric describes as "a trip to the moon on gossamer wings."* His comfortable itinerary included stops at Worcester (Mass.) Academy, where he got into trouble for writing off-color lyrics; Yale, where he got a B.A. and wrote the Eli football songs Bingo and Bulldog; Harvard, where he took the law dean's advice to switch to music; Paris, where he studied at the Schola Cantorum with Composer Vincent d'Indy; and the playgrounds of the Continent...