Word: ghostly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME [Sept. 20] there is an article about "Bootsie" (Mrs. McDonnell Cassini Hearst) which goes on to say that she has welcomed another newcomer to the Hearst fold . . . You state that the column is ghostwritten. I write my own column. I do not have a ghost writer. I have Mr. Charles Gentry, who helps me get news, types my copy, and goes to some places for me as I can't be in two places at the same time. In the second place, you said it started without a byline for the first few days. I had a byline...
...confided, "I am under such emotion, that it is a help ... if someone can sing it for me." London music lovers did not much like this explanation. It soon developed that Madame Grandi had been under similar emotion at last year's Edinburgh Festival, and had used another ghost, standing in the wings, for the same three notes. How much of this kind of thing went on? Apparently Sir Thomas Beecham, who conducted the orchestra for the recording, had approved the whole affair. Wrote a reviewer in Gramaphone: "From now on, I shall have the gravest suspicions when...
...galloping ghost of Tommy Hitchcock might be haunting the Cornell armory tomorrow night, for the Crimson mallet wielders meet the Big Red polo team in an indoor match...
...Roman Empire in the 3rd and 4th Centuries began using mercenary troops from among the barbarians, when full-blooded Romans were running short. That was artificial insemination of their armies, of a sort. And it wasn't long after taking in these "ghost" warriors that Rome was a "ghost" empire! (REV.) Louis L. PERKINS St. John's Episcopal Church Auburn...
...cause of my disillusionment is your rebroadcast of the theory of Mr. Hugh Auchincloss ("Upset the World") Brown in TIME, Sept. 13. The location of the piece under "Science" and the scare headline put you in the position of trying to frighten a somewhat stupid child by telling him ghost stories . . . I enclose a 1? stamp and I suggest that you use it to start a fund to be used to buy Brown a 10? gyroscope...