Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francophile Bill Bullitt was faring in Paris was a matter of prayerful conjecture. A week before the Nazis arrived he had proclaimed, "Every civilized man is praying, after his fashion, for the victory of France." Said a friend in Washington last week: "I'm afraid it will break old Bill's heart. The Germans will probably bow to him from the waist and have caviar shipped in especially, and he would love it if they put him on bread and water." At week's end Mr. Bullitt was reported to have left his hosts, traipsed...
Last week, when "OF Dizz"; got his walking papers, he was in a Chicago hos pital recovering from a scalp wound, received in typical Dean fashion: the door of an automobile in which he was riding had jerked open, toppled him out on his head. -We'll be back -don't forget that,-chirped Mrs. Dean, explaining that the fabulous cripple who can no longer pitch overhand had asked to be sent to Tulsa, where, under the hot sun (most Tulsa games are played at night), he would develop a sidearm delivery, make a come back next year...
...national network. In a huff, Irna quit the station, filed suit to reclaim her drama, went to work for NBC. Still undetermined, after eight years in the courts, is the ownership of Painted Dreams. Whether she owned it or not, Irna didn't hesitate to fashion her next opera upon it. This one was called Today's Children, a story about an average family as Irna conceived it, and with it Irna rang the Crossley bell. Today's Children ran for six and a half years. It was still number one with Crossley when Irna stopped writing...
...prose of Mr. Kissner and most of the authors of the 40 articles in this book rarely flows as smoothly as one of his boats. But literary merit is of only incidental importance; the volume contains a wide variety of advice from how to turn a somersault underwater, Eskimo-fashion, to how to navigate the Forty-Mile rapid of the Mississagi. The great thing about a foldboat, Mr. Kissner assures us, is that in 15 minutes it can be taken apart, packed in two knapsacks, and stowed in no more impressive a boatyard than the hall closet. It is notable...
Poughkeepsle didn't do so well in respect to the culinary arts. The answers of Vassar husbands to the question. "Is she a good cook" included, "In a way" (no telling which way)"; "In a half-baked fashion;" and "No, but she isn't aware...