Word: elephantic
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Stockholders sat down last week to look over the earnings reports for the first half of 1946. Like the blind men of Indostan who went to see the elephant what they "saw" depended on what part of the animal they examined.
First to get Rose's offer was Editor Ralph Ingersoll of adless, reader-hungry PM (circ. 165,000). ("They say they're against people who push people around. Well, I'm people! My name is Norman Corwin, just like anybody else. In a tizzy I called Ralph...
Variety doped it as a white elephant, for which there are no stables on Broadway. But it was coming this week, anyway-a huge (36 scenes, nine carloads of props) staging of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days. Producer-Director-Actor-Magician Orson Welles would not...
Bernhard, who pilots his own plane, recently toured Scandinavia with Juliana ("Lula" to him) to thank the ruling houses for the relief sent Holland. The Danes gave Bernhard and Juliana the prized Order of the Elephant. Grateful but rueful, Bernhard commented privately: "There are two kinds of decorations-those for...
Never rising above its environment, the Fred Rath and Lee Sands farce is about a couple of Coney Island tin-horns, Benny Baker and Sid Melton, who whitewash an elephant and pass him off, in the disapproved carnival style, as a sacred and genu-wine Indian white pachyderm. Things get...