Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baited the hook with capital gains more skillfully than bald, smart Charlie Einfeld, onetime exploitation "genius" at Warner Brothers. In less than six months he had formed Enterprise Productions, signed up enough big name stars for six super epics. Typical was his deal to make Eric Remarque's Arch of Triumph. He landed Actress Ingrid Bergman with a promise of $175,000 in salary, plus half the profits; he promised Remarque 15% of the profits, Director Lewis Milestone and Producer Davis Lewis 10% each...
...Results of a Gallup poll announced last week: only 14 out of every 100 Americans had ever written to their congressional representatives; only nine of the 14 did it on their own hook...
...center for research in nuclear physics, biochemistry and other fields in which neutrons may be useful. Other laboratories in the chain: the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, the Clinton Laboratories at Oak Ridge, Tenn., a new laboratory for universities in the northeastern U.S. (proposed site: Sandy Hook...
...happened in the eighth. Joe Louis closed in. He hit Conn's head with two short, paralyzing rights and a left hook. The three blows left Conn flat on his back, eyes open, listening to the referee's count. As soon as he came to, Conn put the thoughts of 45,266 cash customers into words: "It was a stinking fight...
Philosopher in Twang. Even when receiving old friends and pupils like Philosophers Irwin Edman and Sidney Hook, shy John Dewey shuffles his slippers, pulls at his Groucho Marx mustache, or musses his yellowing white hair in embarrassment. He speaks hesitantly in a soft Vermont twang, and is apt to preface his thoughts with a "seems like. . . ." (Says he: "My ancestry is free from all blemish. All my forefathers* earned an honest living as farmers, wheelwrights and coopers. I was absolutely the first one in seven generations to fall from grace...