Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attracted a few well-known writers (Paul Green, Gladys Hasty Carroll) who find writing for children fun, and many an obscure playwright who hopes to get attention. Last week one of them clicked: the U.S. Treasury Department was so impressed with a play about defense bonds (You Can Count On Us) by an unknown named Bernard J. Reines that it ordered 50,000 copies, will distribute them to public schools throughout the land...
...fact that he knew how to navigate the Fascist stratosphere. When Boss Venturi went to Rome (as head of one of the seven divisions of the Ministry of Corporations), S. K. followed him. In Rome he was introduced to Rome's exclusive Circolo della Caccia (Hunt Club), where Count Ciano gave most of his political dinners. Soon S. K. carried a guest card. At the Hunt Club he met Count Roberto Pinelli, member of the undersecretariat of the Ministry of War. S. K. and Pinelli discovered "a mutual enthusiasm for the writings of Thomas More," author of Utopia, 16th...
...title by knocking out vast (255¼ lb.) Abe Simon, who looks like a worried cigar-store Indian, in 0:16 of the sixth round last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Simon and his manager, James Joy Johnston, the aging Boy Bandit, screamed that the count was short; 18,220 fans screamed with delight. Joe turned his purse, estimated at $45,000, over to the Army Emergency Relief Fund. Promoter Mike Jacobs rewarded him with a dozen eating apples...
Cigar-puffing, Bronx-born Milt Gross is mainly famous as the cartoonist who created the comic-strip sagas Dave's Delicatessen, That's My Pop! and Count Screwloose of Tooloose. But in his restless career among the fine and lively arts, Cartoonist Gross has also taken several whacks at writing (Nize Baby, Famous Fimmales from Heestory, etc.) and at serious landscape art. Last week Hollywood's Frank Perls Gallery was exhibiting the results of Cartoonist Gross's latest venture into fine art: 30 drawings of homely, tumbledown western farm and mining-town scenes. Artist Gross...
Scottish-American Archie Lochhead, former manager of the Treasury's two-billion-dollar stabilization fund, made every bucketful count for China. As head of Universal, he got good prices (current price, 38? a lb.), bought a thousand motor trucks and countless other items for China, dismantled and shipped whole factories across the Pacific, spent $60,000,000 on American goods. The Corporation sold about 150,000,000 lb. of tung...