Word: hankses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Merit was winning recognition all over the place. Henry Ford II got the Thomas A. Edison Centennial Award for industrial statesmanship. John D. Rockefeller Jr. got the New York City Welfare Council's annual award for distinguished service to the community. Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder and...
Decca last week released its most ambitious project in Americana. In Our Common Heritage (16 sides, $10) Bing Crosby, Walter Huston, Fredric March, Pat O'Brien, Brian Donlevy and Agnes Moorehead recite (with background music) American poems and anthems that mark milestones of U.S. history. Best of the lot...
Stowaway. In New Orleans, Adam Hanks was finally relieved of the mysterious "stomach trouble" that had bothered him for nearly 34 years when doctors operated and extracted an old knife blade from his back.
-The previous three: Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit, Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber, Joseph S. Pennell's The History of Rome Hanks.
On the Pacific Coast, the word of Joseph Henry Jackson* is literary law. Eastern publishers quote his reviews, publish almost any manuscript he recommends. This year his influence has swept over the Sierras with even more spectacular results than usual. Two current bestsellers are books that he plugged before publication...