Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a year's safari into darkest Hollywood, Anthropologist Hortense Powdermaker has emerged with a published account of her findings, Hollywood, The Dream Factory (Little, Brown; $3.50). On the basis of previous research among backward Melanesian natives, Dr. Powdermaker concluded that the denizens of Hollywood are even more primitive, more superstitious, more beset by anxieties than Stone Age tribesmen...
...Standings had at last finished building his Connecticut dream house. As he commuted between his country acres and his Madison Avenue office, Blandings got to thinking that it wasn't really enough just to own a house. A man ought to pull his weight in the community. What happened to fiction's famous flannel-brained Manhattan adman in the social & political briers of rural New England is the lightsome burden of Blandings' Way, FORTUNE Editor Eric Hodgins' sequel to Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House...
...second book of Blandings is not so homely-timely as the first, but it will probably have just as big a popular success; it is a Book-of-the-Month Club pick for October, and contains almost as many situations for Gary Grant and Myrna Loy as Dream House...
...important work in the world-raising children." With this observation, in 1926, a 30-year-old Manhattan bachelor launched Children-the Magazine for Parents. For his monthly, Publisher George J. Hecht,who combed the birth statistics for his mailing list, set a circulation of 100,000 as his wildest dream. It soon came true-and then some...
...officials of the Law School and the other graduate schools in Cambridge are unrestrainedly enthusiastic. To all of them, the Graduate Center seems like a "dream come true." It is the climax of many years of hoping and hard work...