Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merchant eye" for entertainment. When the Roxy movie palace went bust, the receivers appointed Cullman to run it. Within the first year, using a fire-sale technique, he swung it over from a $4,000 weekly loss to a $6,500 weekly profit. He slashed admission prices, sponsored fashion shows, gave away roses, tried to book Huey Long. Five years after Cullman started running it, the Roxy-handsomely solvent - was sold to 20th Century...
...Britons girded for the climactic year of Europe's war, and for the peace, is King George VI. His highest duty is to be one of Britain's 46,000,000. In a fashion which no other people can wholly understand, and which no Briton needs to understand, he is Britain, or he is nothing...
Thus, the hanging of Captain Kidd is a page one crime story. There are fashion jottings on the grey topper and bustle. Significant sports items such as the Sullivan v. Kilrain championship fight bob up. "Gracious Living Today" depicts authentic colonial home furnishings. The books and plays of the times are reviewed, including the London opening of William Shakespeare's The Tempest...
...Private preparatory schools can produce radicals. Pupils who have become accustomed to wealth, fashion and snobbishness can resist such blandishments thereafter. Perhaps that is why . . Franklin Delano Roosevelt [a Grottie] is what...
HOME SWEET HOMICIDE- Craig Rice- Simon & Schuster ($2). The three active children of mystery-writing Marian Carstairs were practically in at the death when murder came next door, and in their own inimitable fashion pointed out the solution to a brace of long-suffering detectives. You may forget the murder while you laugh at the kids, but from all angles it's about the best bet of the year...