Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strange Bedfellows is aimed at the exact opposite of that "fit audience . . . though few" to which the poet Milton addressed his work. It will very likely hit the mark. If Playwrights Ryerson & Clements haven't invented a single thing, neither have they missed a single trick: they even remember to wedge the madam of a bordello into a frightfully genteel tea party. And though the authors are never witty, they have an uncanny sense of what will get a laugh; the secret being that it has always gotten one before...
...D.T.s." At a Salvation Army headquarters, where he had been given a handout, he asked: "Do you think your Jesus could save me?" An officer advised him to go to the altar. "I went forward and I knelt and I asked Jesus. A new man was born then. I haven't touched drink or dope since...
...Gaines, who was 28 by the time his case was settled, changed his mind about going to law school. "Haven't heard of him since," says Marshall...
...welding knowledge to work on his first steel model, playfully called it "Electrolysis." But he did not start mass production until 194,5. Last year, his assembly-line yard at West Haven, Conn, turned out one steel cruiser every 90 minutes, and he grossed $4,250,000. (When Steelcraft's 1,000th boat came off the line, Churchward had it lifted 106 feet by a crane, then dropped to demonstrate its indestructibility.) So far, he has turned out 1,860 cruisers. This year he is stepping up production one-third, and hopes to turn out more small cruisers than...
...minute agenda appear over 25 busy bodies and their wives with nothing but themselves to sell. Music in styles stolen from Memphis to New Haven is the medium of these low-pressure, high-chuckle salesmen for weaving the radio waves into what they hope will be a half hour of entertainment...