Word: fountainhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were: Betty Smith, whose A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ($2.75) sold 460,000 copies in four months, Ilka Chase (In Bed We Cry, $2.50), Elizabeth Janeway (The Walsh Girls, $2.50), Helen Howe (The Whole Heart, $2.50), Allan Seager (Equinox, $2.75). Notable among the second group were Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, $3) and Christine Weston, who with two unknown novels to her all but unknown literary credit, turned out Indigo ($2.50), which reviewers compared with E. M. Forster's A Passage to India...
...Vittorio Emanuele III would stand as the legitimate fountainhead of Italian authority. Over the radio from Allied-held Bari the King spoke last week: "Italians, follow...
...Long Beach, Calif., where he founded his famed pension movement nine years ago, Dr. Francis E. Townsend returned last week to rally his followers-and at the fountainhead to try to refresh his own optimism. For Townsendism, thanks to the thousands of jobs that war has opened to oldsters, had fallen on discouraging times...
...newly rich, successful business stung by Fly into self-appraisal. It found itself to be several things at once: a marvelous medium communicating news and home entertainment to scores of millions; a boiler room of advertising patter echoing in every cranny of the nation; (and much less continuously) a fountainhead of beautiful music, intelligent discussion, excellent reporting-all given to the people free. There was no complaint from the people. CBS and NBC indeed made plenty of money. But they pointed to the $8,000,000 a year they spent on their sustaining programs and affirmed that, in an economic...
...grand-jury investigation of police graft in 1937 showed what the Old Lady was up to. Investigator Edwin N. Atherton reported that McDonough Bros, controlled men all through the police department, was "a fountainhead of corruption, willing to interest itself in almost any matter designed to defeat or circumvent the law." No one could open a bawdy house or gambling dive without Mc-Donough approval, and a McDonough okay was insurance that the police would rarely drop around except for a payoff. The payoff ran into staggering figures. San Francisco's 135 "regular, old-established" brothels and its hundreds...