Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marlene ("Legs") Dietrich pooh-poohed a popular myth: "The average man," she confided, "is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs." But she conceded that beautiful legs "help...
...spirit. In a Manhattan court hearing last week he took most of it back. The New York attorney general was trying to put Goldsmith out of business as a tipster. However, Goldsmith, veteran of 48 years of financial soothsaying, did admit that he had tried to get some spirit help, but had had no luck...
...sister is a medium," he said. "I positively know we are able to communicate with our friends on the other side through what we call her telephone ear." But when the sister asked the friends to help Fred "make some money," the spirits replied: "We think Fred knows more about the stock market than...
...Philadelphia's WFIL picked up a radio trick and offered advertisers the "package rate" (including station time, normal rehearsal time, staff production fees, stock scenery, etc.). Although WFIL boosted its rates at the same time (from $300 to $400 an hour), advertisers thought the new system would eventually help them cut costs...
...matter of fact, if all the dark horses, Missouri cronies, Senatorial comrades, and citizens-of-stature-deserving-high-executive-positions were included in the new Truman Cabinet, that body would have to hold its meetings in the waiting-room at Grand Central Station. This might not help governmental efficiency, but it would certainly give wider scope to the purveyors of political chit-chat...