Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Sulzberger checked King's bio folder in the morgue without success. She noted that Doubleday & Co. had published four volumes of King's works and, hoping that the verse might be among them, telephoned a Doubleday editor. Nothing could be done until the Doubleday office opened on Monday...
...question of immediate response to an impelling urgency or else progressive surrender to the calculated advance of World Communism. If nothing had been done, the conquest of Europe by Communism would have been immeasurably advanced...
Resembling an oversize Foxy Grandpa, Griffis lives in an oversize, 14-room apartment on Manhattan's elegant Sutton Place. Five bathrooms are done in various pastels-one in baby blue. Decor runs to silver zigzag-patterned wallpaper, thick cream rugs. The bric-a-brac is Brobdingnagian. Twice married, twice divorced, Griffis keeps his current philosophy, stitched in a sampler, hanging on a wall of his pine-paneled library: "High hopes faint on a warm hearthstone. He travels the fastest who travels alone...
...there were those who thought that FCC had not done too well, that some way should have been found to let CBS test the public's reaction to color. As the New York Times snapped: "The public will wonder what has become of free enterprise. It will also wonder if television must be monopolized by the company that has had the foresight to develop a system of color transmission and reception which will be acceptable...
...name on the cornerstones. Trade was the penny-watcher. Except for his habit of taking the waitresses from their plant restaurant for a daily ride in his surrey (later a Fiat), he ran everything with Scottish austerity. As a result of his insistence that all paper work be done on the backs of old envelopes, Smith Brothers kept no records for 65 years. Trade's pet project was the Prohibition Party, under whose banner he once ran for mayor. He was soundly beaten by a local brewer...