Word: inns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late dynamic Thomas Balmer. . . . When he was Western representative of the Butterick Publishing Co. (Delineator), 40 years ago, and I was a budding young advertising man from Honolulu, he took me to lunch in Chicago. While waiting for the English mutton chops at St. Hubert's Inn, he popped the question, "How many are two and two?" I baruchly gave the answer, "Four, of course." "Young man." he sternly corrected, "you will never succeed in advertising until you learn that two and two can make...
...When he arrived at the big resort of Nikko he went to a tailor shop, got his silk shirt and white trousers pressed for 20 sen (6?), searched until he found a hotel he liked. "My room and two meals each day in this, perhaps the very finest native inn in all Japan, was two yen fifty...
...British tankman, Franchot Tone becomes a spy by accident. Lost in the desert during the British retreat of June 1942, sunstruck, temporarily deranged, he stumbles into a roadside inn which is shortly to become German Staff Headquarters. He quickly assumes the clothes and the role of a dead waiter who had been a Nazi agent. Brought before Rommel, he learns that he will be sent to Cairo for another undercover assignment. With a pretty French chambermaid called Mouche (Anne Baxter), he manages to decipher enough in Rommel's papers to locate five mysterious "graves" of buried German Army supplies...
...plugger: a short, stocky Negro named (Arthur) Dooley Wilson, who started this forgotten ditty toward its sensational present success by the loving way he sang it in the Warner Bros, movie Casablanca (TIME, Nov. 30). Dodo and Dooley met at Manhattan's Greenwich Village Inn, where the veteran Negro minstrel was doing a singing turn...
Another directorate of Morrison's is that of the annual Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a literary group that meets the last two weeks of August at Bread Loaf Inn near Middlebury, Vermont, to criticize and discuss each other's poems, short stories, articles, and novels. Louis Untermeyer, Robert Frost, and Bernard De Voto are on the staff. Morrison has himself published several volumes of verse, including "Serpent in the Cloud," 1931, and "Notes on Life and Death...