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...WFDR off to a razzle-dazzle start. Congratulatory messages came from India's Pandit Nehru and Chile's President Gonzalez Videla, Italy's Premier de Gasperi and France's Leon Blum. There were Verdi arias and Rooseveltian folksongs (Ballad for FDR, The Face on the Dime), and jokes by Milton Berle (see PEOPLE). Big business was represented by RCA's David Sarnoff, the Armed Forces by General Walter Bedell Smith, Government by FCCommissioner Frieda Hennock and New York City's Mayor O'Dwyer. Eleanor Roosevelt said: "I am very glad...
...Good House . . . Dime Defective . . . Avon Books. All the Girls We Loved, by de Percds, a new Hemingway. Two bits. What the hell...
...Calif., where he had taken his stepmother and Nora, Frankie Waldron fingered the mementos and closed that preliminary chapter in the career of a revolutionary. He was absorbed in Communist reading matter, furiously wrote Communist tracts. He worked only when his stepmother and Nora were down to the last dime. Salesmen's jobs were "bourgeois," he orated. His stepmother pleaded with him to make something of himself. He told a friend: "Humanity's welfare is far more vital than my desires in life." He worked briefly as a puddler in a steel foundry-until one day he received...
...dreamed things would turn out that way when they took over the New York Weekly Dispatch in 1855. Editing their magazines and paperbacked books for men only, they bought the humor of Bill Nye and Josh Billings, the Buffalo Bill stories of Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson), the dime novels by Nick Carter (Colonel Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey), 1,000 stories about Frank Merriwell by Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten...
...Mack. Why, he demanded, had executive bonuses been maintained while the dividend had been passed? Said Mack: bonuses had been scaled down according to the earnings (in 1948, Mack got $20,000 on top of his $104,000 salary). Anyway, he added, good executives "don't come a dime a dozen...