Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours after the beginning of "An Inspector Calls," just as two balconies, an orchestra, and several boxes full of tired and tortured audience are about to give up the ghost, Melville Cooper puts down the telephone and recites a quiet curtain line that makes this J. B. Priestley opus almost worth seeing. That one sentence also reveals spectacularly how good a play the production might have been with even adequate direction or acting...
...Grad. Another ghost from the past was Joseph Zack Kornfedder, salesman for a Detroit manufacturer. In other days he was known as Joseph Zack. Old, bald ex-Bolshevik Zack described how he had climbed steadily from organizer to big shot in the party...
Idaho City, Idaho (pop. 273) is only a ghost of a town, but its leading citizens still pack a punch. Editor John Colley, who publishes the weekly Idaho Mountaineer and pitches for the town's oft-beaten baseball team, criticized some of the fielders editorially for not playing hard enough. Last week Editor Colley's paper carried a front-page box: "This issue is a day late. The editor has two shiners. Caustic journalism doesn...
...news came from Cleveland's sweltering Public Hall, where the I.T.U. last week held its 89th national convention. Mild-eyed President Woodruff Randolph,*55, laid the new policy on the line: the union would obey the letter of the law, but it would as soon give up the ghost as the closed shop it had won from the bulk of the U.S. press (some exceptions: the open-shop Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Bulletin, John H. Perry's Florida chain...
...circ. 270,000) has lost $400,000 for Publisher Hillman, mainly because of rising printing and paper costs. Pope and most of his staff left last week. Hillman planned to use up their "bank" of articles in three bimonthly issues. Then, barring happy accident, Pageant would give up the ghost...