Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven days a week, composing directives by hand (he does not like to dictate) and buzzing for his aides when he wants them (he has banned telephones from his desk). He looks fit and much younger than his years; his hair, flecked with grey, is usually carefully brushed to cover a bald spot. The General lives sedately with his alert, unaffected wife (19 years his junior) and their sturdy eleven-year-old son, Arthur MacArthur, in the palatial U.S. embassy...
...subsidy from the state, he has played hundreds of concerts for barefoot kids and grateful adults, in churches, schoolhouses and ballparks. Once he even shipped his "Little Symphony" aboard a Coast Guard cutter to play for the isolated people living on sandy Cape Hatteras. This year he hopes to cover 7,000 miles. To Swalin, now 48, "good music can uplift and ennoble people, and help them to better themselves...
...nation's top newspapers last week drubbed their journalistic brethren for ignoring or suppressing a scandal in the family. Snapped the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "A conspiracy of silence." Added the Washington Post: "At best [a] crass indifference to a particularly juicy bit of news. At worst ... a cover-up of scandal within the family...
...books have sold more than 30 million copies in less than nine years. Fourteen Gardner titles have gone over the million mark; The Case of the Lucky Legs alone has hit the incredible figure, for a detective story, of 2,000,000. In all editions, hard and paper cover, Gardner's books have sold more than 37 million copies,* are now moving over the counters at the rate of six or seven million copies a year in the U.S. and Canada alone...