Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sadder but sweeter, Artie Shaw last week soft-talked the jitterbugs, dispensed autographs like grace notes. What he wants most is $25,000 to start his dream band, and the jitterbugs bring him a gross of $2,000 to $2,500 a night, five nights a week. Nevertheless Leader Shaw last week canceled 32 such golden dates in the South and Southwest, where he has never played. Reason: he was asked to shelve Negro Paige during that part of his tour. The South can take all-Negro bands like Cab Galloway's, and it doesn't mind small...
...best women golfers in the U.S. include Helen Silleck Holleran (co-owner of the New York Yankee baseball empire), Sylva Annenberg Leichner (niece of Publisher Moe Annenberg) and Grace Amory (ex-stepsister of Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt). Last week in Brookline, Mass., these gold-spoon golfers and no other top-flight amateurs matched strokes for the Women's Golf Championship...
...discovered several minutes before the reception that no copy of the book could be found. Mr. Murdock himself sprinted up to the Square and bought one in the nick of time, and while the author scrawled his autograph on the fly-leaf, concealed the uncut pages with masterful grace...
Wesley also made the printing press an effective weapon in his holy wars. Calvinists, enraged at his teaching Free Grace instead of Predestination, answered him thus in The Gospel Magazine...
...most complete account to date of the "grotesque and incredible revolution" whereby the U.S. Communist Party, once a mob of mugwump Marxists led by nonentities, entrenched itself in the leadership of the C.I.O. and in strategic spots in the Federal Government. Eugene Lyons tells how the Commies managed by grace of the depression, the widespread fear of fascism, the Spanish Civil War and the New Deal to capture key positions in U.S. publishing, radio, movies and the stage...