Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the bowel recovers from laxative irritation, it can get along with very little help: the methylcellulose can be cut down from 16 tablets...
...Ruth's old-style direction, in the manner of a fast silent comedy, and Ruth Roman's homegirl charm as the love interest, help Berle make Always Leave Them Laughing a warm, unpretentiously funny comedy...
Fireworks for Fans. He had grown up in the baseball business, beginning with the Chicago Cubs, where his father was club president. Bill himself had been everything from office boy to treasurer at Wrigley Field; in 1941, with the help of Midwest friends, he had bought control of the Milwaukee Brewers. When he moved into Cleveland after the war, he thought he knew how to give the fans their money's worth...
With his wife's help (he never mastered Japanese), Hearn translated dozens of legends and poems, composed scores of essays and sketches on Japanese life. In the essays prepared for the eyes of Western readers, he remained his adopted country's devoted partisan to the end. Loyally, he painted his adopted country as a peace-loving land menaced by the West. Wrote Hearn: "An evil dream comes oftentimes to those who love Japan: the fear that all her efforts are being directed, with desperate heroism, only to prepare the land for the sojourn of peoples older by centuries...
Davis Bros.' hustling President John F. O'Hara, 36, hopes to cut into the Friday fish market, which he helps to supply, simply because this year he ran into a shortage of mackerel, normally 70% of the fish he cans. Fishermen were pulling in plenty of tuna along the East Coast, but that was not much help: it was the dark, oilier tuna (horse mackerel to fishermen), and could not compete with the West Coast's white tuna...