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...White, author of three Arthurian-legend fantasies: The Sword in the Stone, The Witch in the Wood, The Ill-Made Knight. He has put them to good use in a book that is freakish fantasy from start to finish. Supposedly a children's book, it will entertain most adults (it is the Book-of-the-Month Club choice for October...
Learning-by-hearing is the serious side of a new fad for children's recordings, most of which aim only to entertain (see Music). Sales indicate that a lot of desperate parents need help...
Sister Kenny (RKO Radio) is a handsome, emotional film biography, skillfully knitted together out of interesting fact, harmless fiction and debatable propaganda. It will probably entertain most moviegoers-and it will most certainly raise the hackles on the American Medical Association's collective neck...
...radio's Hit Parade, Hill once remarked: "Taking 100% as the total value, we give 90% to the commercials and 10% to the show." To exasperated listeners he explained: "I don't have the right to spend the stockholder's money just to entertain the public...
...take was already close to $8,000,000, with more business to come in September and October (a hunting month). Ontario, in a golden daze, was sure last year's $96,000,000 tourist income would be topped by at least 20%. French Canada estimated that it would entertain at least 15 million Americans, knew only that the profit would be enormous...