Word: cosmopolitanization
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Television brought the games to the biggest baseball audience ever. In Denver, which not only saw its first Series but its first TV, the Series was a sensation. Eighty sets, installed in the lobbies, private suites and show windows of the Brown Palace and Cosmopolitan hotels, drew such crowds that police were forced to throw up barricades to keep them in control. In Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York and dozens of other big cities, TV watchers were almost as excited-they clotted up around dealers' show windows, jockeyed cunningly for position at bars, ate with their eyes...
...handbills in the hilly Fourth Ward before they were out of high school. Theirs was a predominantly Republican district, and the few Democrats were badly split between Tom Pendergast's "goats" and Joe Shannon's "rabbits." Mother Boyle stuck loyally to the "goats," and ran her Cosmopolitan Democratic club for Tom Pendergast with a firm hand. At the big, rip-snorting Pendergast picnics at Lonejack, Mo., the Boyles got well acquainted with the Trumans, another loyal Pendergast family. Harry Truman was a Jackson County judge (i.e., county commissioner) and making a name for himself for administration. "The President...
...first half of this year was "only 2.57% of sales as compared with 6.34 for the entire year of 1949 and 5.84% for the entire year of 1950." Ford Motor followed with its proposed increases: Ford, $41.35 to $65.91; Mercury, $40.45 to $52.52; Lincoln, $69.57 to $75.06; Cosmopolitan, $56.90 to $70.77. But they were computed only on the wholesale price; the retail increases will be bigger...
...daily newspapers (total circ. 5,350,000); Sunday papers, including the supplement American Weekly, world's biggest (9,374,850) and eight monthly magazines in the U.S., ranging from Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping to American Druggist (total circ. 6 million...
...acquired (from the Ziegfeld Follies) Miss Marion Davies, née Douras. Blonde and bubbly daughter of a Brooklyn judge, she was a chorus girl when W.R. met her during World War I. Hearst presently took over her career. Soon Marion Davies was a star of Hearst's Cosmopolitan pictures (Little Old New York), and its $104,000-a-year president. She was to be the aging press lord's companion until his death...