Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. J. Warren Kerrigan, 67, whose small fortune made (and shrewdly saved) as an early (1911 to 1923) cinematinee idol allowed him to spend his last years pleasantly puttering around his garden; of pneumonia; in Balboa, Calif...
...Sacred Idol. Was business the villain? Despite manufacturers' pleas of higher production costs, of less-than-full production, many companies showed lush profits for 1946 and the first quarter of 1947 (although many were operating on dangerously thin profit margins). Business had answered the President's plea for voluntary price reductions with piddling action to date. The C.I.O.'s Phil Murray accused industrialists of "actual racketeering" and "organized robbery...
...blame? Harry Truman jumped into the argument. His hands were not spotless. He had encouraged Labor to clamor for higher wages after V-J day. At the same time, he tried to keep prices hammer-locked. The paradox stalled production. Like most politicians, he had bowed before the sacred idol of support for farm prices, which would keep a floor under food costs until...
Hanan does not need to tailor his U.S. strips to U.S. taste. His idol is the New Yorker's James Thurber, and Louie bears a spiritual resemblance to Thurber's ineffectual heroes. Above all Hanan hates Superman; he considers Louie a sort of anti-Superman...
Mark grew up in Jacksonville, Fla. At 18, he went north, went to work as an accountant for "a boyhood idol," Thomas Edison. At 19, he got a better job with American Telephone & Telegraph, which then owned Manhattan's WEAF...