Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week the Chicago Sun syndicate let a trade secret out of the bag: its ghost-ridden Barnaby strip (in 52 papers, circ. 5,590,000) had been ghostwritten as well since the first of the year. Next week the ghosts would materialize; in place of Johnson's byline, quietly dropped several months ago, there would be two new ones: Ted Ferro and Jack Morley, Connecticut neighbors of Johnson. Ferro, at 41 an old hand at collaboration, had ground out radio serial Lorenzo Jones with his wife for nine years. Morley, a 38-year-old gag cartoonist, once...
Last week, like an evil ghost, the "affaire Stavisky" haunted the news again. French taxpayers were cheered by a decree of the Fourth Republic's Cabinet: the Government and the city of Bayonne would make good a majority of the fraudulent Stavisky bonds. But the fortune in jewels, which Stavisky gave to his wife, Arlette, an ex-mannequin and dancer, was still untraced. The former Arlette Stavisky, her terpsichorean tittups long forgotten, recently settled down with her husband, a U.S. Army captain, to a tranquil life in Puerto Rico...
...years Cobalt was a ghost town. Then in 1940 it hit the comeback trail. The war created a heavy U.S. demand for cobalt as an alloy in cutting tools. In the town's heyday, get-rich-quick silver miners had tossed cobalt ore aside as useless; now it was worth over 80? a pound, and the old cobalt dumps were in demand...
Perhaps in November. Hitler's ghost might wake the Hörselberg with sardonic laughter at the competition between the victors for Germany's favor. Yet so long as the Big Power conflict existed, competition for control of the most important nation in Europe was inevitable. If the game had to be played, why should the West, which held better cards, lose...
West, who staged last spring's HDC production of "Winterset" and has appeared at the Pasadena Playhouse as Horatio in "Hamlet" will play the title role in the Sanders Theater production. He has chosen all the other members of his cast except Claudius and The Ghost...