Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from His Majesty and gave him an armored car. But Bao Dai scorned such protection. At Hanoi, which he proclaimed his capital, he walked down a narrow street, right through 50,000 people, any one of whom could have killed him with a pistol or a grenade. He has done this again & again all over the country, walking as calmly as he did when he was stalking gaur...
Twittery Cinemactress Billie Burke, svelte and pretty at 63, revealed that, among other exercises, she stands on her head every morning. "It gets the blood to the brain," said she. "That's good for any thinking that has to be done ... I suppose it's also good for my feet and the rest...
Diagnosis. To get at the theater's internal "maladjustments" and its troubles with the public, Bernays' high-powered firm had done a six-week survey. There were interviews in all branches of the theater; 400 "personal depth" interviews in upper and middle income groups in nine selected cities; 5,000 mailed questionnaires to key individuals in 27 cities...
Spivak hopes the new magazine will do for fantasy and science fiction what his Ellery Queen (which he says has a 200,000 circulation) has done for the short detective story...
Before a joint committee looking into the whole field of U.S. investments, appeared Eugene Holman, president of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.). How did he think U.S. capital could be lured abroad? The net of Oilman Holman's forthright reply was that the real job could not be done by the U.S.; it had to be done by other nations. Before U.S. investors would loosen up, he said, high taxes, foreign currency restrictions and other controls would have to be eased...