Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comedienne Joan Davis, who does visual pratfalls on the screen and verbal ones on the radio, went back on the air last week with a new distinction. For the first time, she was her own boss-and under a million-dollar-a-year contract which makes her the highest-paid woman performer in radio...
...Contract. All around the vast perimeter of the territories about to be delivered from Japanese oppression, smaller dramas were being acted out. In Manchuria a Japanese officer told the Russians that "unconditional surrender" was not to be found in the Japanese vocabulary. In China, the delegate to Chihkiang euphemistically was careful not to use the expression, but called it "the contract ending this...
...have $11 million-a-year worth of radio enterprise (soap operas, Truth or Consequences, etc.), signed Smith for two years, and plan to blow $1,600,000 a year on the show-which is a lot of Oxydol. It is a good contract for Jack Smith: if P & G decide to drop him, they lose the right to the prize radio time (held for three years by Chesterfield)-and meanwhile Jack Smith can sing on as many other radio shows as he, and his fans, can take...
...Doubleday, Doran Novel Contest and the $125,000 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Annual Novel Award. The $145,000 is not the end of Mrs. Howard's windfall. M.G.M. will pay her up to $50,000 more if her book becomes a best-seller -and may offer her a writing contract to boot...
...strange limbo where it is far worse to have started brilliantly and to have slopped off, than to be just starting; where everyone, forgetting what went wrong and why, assigns it simply to lack of ability; where it is silly to thionk of getting a release from a strangling contract; where boredom, frustration and hopelessness conspire against the will until as she says, "all you can hope for is that sooner or later you will hit bottom...." She hit bottom in the appalling Ladies Courageous (TIME, April...