Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Home of the Brave. A gripping account of anti-Negro prejudice in the wartime Pacific (TIME...
Divorced. By Dorothy Schiff Thackrey, 46, owner-publisher of the New Dealing New York Post Home News (circ. 374,706): third husband Theodore Olin Thackrey, 47, editor and publisher of the party-lining New York Daily Compass (circ. about 50,000) ; after six years of marriage, no children; in Gooding, Idaho...
...crusade to suppress sin and soup up circulation, the New York Post Home News last week inflated a new dragon. It launched a series called "Millions on Every Pitch," supposedly exposing a nationwide, $33 million-a-day gambling racket based on professional baseball. Cried the Post: "Powerful gambling syndicates, ruthless bookmakers and gangsters, common cutthroats and other criminal vermin [make millions] at the expense of the great sport of American youth...
...Eliot had already published three plays, but the Nobel Prizewinning poet and critic has always been more at home with his publishers than with theater people. The Rock (1934), Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Family Reunion (1939) all got into print without the test of a stage tryout-a process which prompts most dramatists to fresh visions and revisions...
...usually count the house by counting the hoots. For eleven weeks, St. Louis playgoers had gone down to the Goldenrod's mooring by the cobblestoned levee and paid 75? a head to sass the actors in his hokum-logged version of Hamlet. Last week, on his way home from a lecture tour, Bryant tarried in St. Louis for five days to give the classic a fillip: his own appearance in the double role of Polonius and the First Gravedigger...