Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cultural event in Columbus, Ohio, was the world premiere of A Moon for the Misbegotten, new play...
Last week, before the biggest (130,000) crowd that any U.S. sport event brings together, the two drivers slid into the cockpits of Lou Moore's identical light-blue racers. The field of 30 speedsters, their temperamental engines sucking in blends of gas and alcohol, snarled through the first lap at 122 m.p.h...
...continental event," pontificated President Perón. Brazil's press had almost nothing to say. A Brazilian proposal for joint mediation in Paraguay's stalemated civil war stalled. The tired topic of a wheat-for-rubber trade treaty stood where it had before-on the shelf...
...publishers, who are using all the paper they can find to print it (they expect Inside U.S.A. to be the biggest-selling $5 book ever published), and $40,000 to promote it, Gunther's book is the event of the year. It is unlikely to outlast the year. Like a large proportion of bestsellers, this is journalism between boards. It will shove neither Bryce's American Commonwealth nor the WPA State Guides off the shelf; it is neither as penetrating as the one, nor as useful as the other...
...Miriam Taylor Caldwell, whose previous novels (This Side of Innocence, The Eagles Gather, Dynasty of Death, etc.) have rung up a total sale of almost 2,000,000 copies. This Side of Innocence was the biggest fiction seller of 1946. Consequently, the appearance of her new novel is an event for her admirers-and, for analytical critics, another ripe opportunity to examine the ingredients and treatment wherewith Author Caldwell has made herself one of the richest novelists...