Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among the angels. That was the way things usually worked out, but in last week's gloom, they were working in reverse. One producer, plugging away at raising money for a new musical, reported that one man turned him down "because he said it wasn't as good as South Pacific," the biggest hit in town...
...prop under the sagging economy has been the auto industry, which boasts that one out of every seven U.S. workers is in some way dependent on it. Automakers rolled out more units in August (about 650,000) than in any other month in history.* But that was not good news to dealers already having trouble selling cars...
Headquarters of the Midwest Exchange will be in the marble-hailed Chicago Stock Exchange; the exchanges in other cities will be its regional branches, linked together by telephone and teletype. The prospects for more trading looked so good that the price of seats on Chicago's Stock Exchange, now an automatic admission ticket to Midwest, climbed from $3,200 to $4,100, the highest in three years...
...play their real-life selves. So do Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn and a few other Warner stars who have been rushed on for bit roles. For ardent movie fans, these peeks at the great may help carry the film. But for most moviegoers, the spoofing is hardly good enough to conceal the laborious spadework...
...kids around Chicago's tough, slummy Division Street had a game called Let Her Fly. It was easy to learn, and it was a dandy game because it made the winner feel good and the loser feel terrible. All the player had to do was wrap up some garbage, sneak up on his opponent and slam it in his face. But the play had to be fair & square. Just before the pitch the thrower had to yell...