Word: conrad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl Conrad is free, white and 36, a Hearstwhile reporter who became a Negro expert for Manhattan's race-conscious PM. Last week he quit PM to head the New York bureau and write a column for the New Dealing Negro Chicago Defender ("World's Greatest Weekly"), which already has a Japanese-American on its staff. Said Conrad: "No white paper is prepared to speak out on the Negro question. . . . There has been a conspiracy of silence. This is changing rapidly now, but I am apparently ahead of the trend...
...lank, hard-bargaining hotelman named Conrad Nicholson Hilton, 59, longed to own something really big. Inevitably, his gaze fell upon the world's biggest hotel: Chicago's 2,700-room Stevens. Last week, for $7,500,000, Innkeeper Hilton proudly added the Chicago colossus to his string of 13 hotels (including Manhattan's Plaza and Roosevelt, and Los Angeles' swank Town House...
Laffing Room Only (book by Olsen & Johnson and Eugene Conrad; music & lyrics by Burton Lane; produced by the Messrs. Shubert and Olsen & Johnson), considering that its father was Sons o' Fun and its grandfather Hellzapoppin, is a little on the rational side. It has the family tic-love of firearms and mania for practical jokes; it casually flips a sausage in your lap, starts an uproar in the aisles, and sports a big, live brown bear. But either Laffing Room Only lacks the old lunacy, or the old lunacy lacks the lure it once...
...when he applied for a scholarship at the Royal Conservatory of Naples, the only opening was a course in bassoon playing. In 1922 he joined the Philharmonic as a bassoonist. Fifteen years later, at the death of the Philharmonic's veteran contrabassoonist, a stately Anglo-German named William Conrad, Sensale moved down an octave to take his place...
...about twice as American as the average U.S. screen heroine. James Mason, an English matinee idol new to U.S. cinemaddicts, suggests a welterweight Clark Gable. Walter Rilla, once popular on the German stage and screen, is perhaps the most satisfying portrayer of suave continental menace since the late Conrad Veidt...