Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the Perón regime's nationalization program, which had already absorbed railroads, telephones and other utilities, took over Dodero's ships, his shares in an airline, and all the rest of his Argentine business property except five apartment houses. The terms were those of a forced sale: 26 million pesos (less than $3,000,000) for the controlling stock...
...Dodgers picked up Campanella in 1946, gave him his minor-league training at Nashua, N.H. and Montreal. This year, except in one game of a doubleheader, Burt Shotton hasn't used anyone but Campanella behind the plate...
Teen-age Tester. Attractive new publisher Thompson has had to learn plenty of other new jobs in her time. Except for a brief stint in advertising, she has been in the magazine business ever since 1930, when she started with Conde Nast as a $30-a-week assistant in Vogue's promotion department. Before long she was editing both the Vogue Pattern Book and a cheaper one which the company had decided to start. It was such a hit that she sold Conde Nast the idea of a fashion magazine aimed at a cheaper audience than Vogue...
...personal life is not nearly so rich. Sensitive despite his brashness, he has been left deeply insecure and distrustful by his career as a child in a rough-&-tumble struggle. "The great want to conquer" has left him neither time nor depth for other interests, except the spectator sports and an occasional game of billiards. He goes almost everywhere with a bolstering entourage of yesmen, who run his errands and remind him at frequent intervals that he is terrific. In 1941 he married Showgirl Joyce Mathews, a striking blonde who got a Reno divorce six years later. Still friendly, they...
...huge repertory he and the Pops have built up: 103 marches, 98 overtures, 115 suites, 81 piano concertos, 51 waltzes, 45 arrangements from musical comedies. Boston Pops recordings now fill more pages in RCA Victor's Red Seal catalogue (160 titles) than those of any other orchestra except the Philadelphia...