Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems grow out of news-gathering and news-writing: Readers overseas write us in their native languages asking us to do all sorts of things for them-to find a long-lost brother in Wisconsin, to get an interview with President Truman, to tell them how to buy a Fifth Avenue trousseau for a daughter bride-to-be. Two girls in our Letters Department spend most of their time just translating and trying to follow through on such requests...
...Verdict. Halfway through last week's doubles championships at Brookline, Pauline ran into trouble. Her big toe became infected, swelled up to twice its normal size. In the semifinals, teamed with Doris Hart, Pauline discarded sneakers, played in heavy woolen socks. They lost. (Osborne and Brough won their fifth doubles championship beating Mary Arnold Prentiss and Pat Todd...
Married. Olivia de Havilland, 30, British-born cinemactress (Anthony Adverse, Captain Blood), sister of Cinemactress Joan Fontaine; and Marcus Goodrich, 48, screen writer, novelist (bestseller Delilah); she for the first time, he for the fifth; in Wilton, Conn...
Into the new firm with Sullivan and Cohane went Donald D. Stauffer, 45, and S. Heagan Bayles, 35, co-directors of R.&R.'s radio operations. Their fifth partner was the only principal in the new firm who was not an R.&R. man: Robert T. Colwell, 42, top creative man and head of the plans board at J. Walter Thompson, No. 1 U.S. ad agency...
...talk that Air Affairs has an ax to grind. But every large airline except TWA helped with early contributions of $100 and up, and seven have agreed to plug the magazine with copies in every plane. Promoter Pardridge is already talking about moving Air Affairs from his fifth-floor walkup flat & office in Washington, D.C. Next month he will ask his hand-picked board of trustees (Sir William P. Hildred, Laurance S. Rockefeller, Quincy Wright, et al.) for a raise in pay, from the $250 a month he started business on. He expects...