Word: item
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radio City Music Hall, which used to show 20 pictures a year, last year showed only seven. This boosted the revenue per picture and per dollar investment enormously. It had also enabled studios to cut down on picture making, dole out the pictures already on its shelves. Item: Paramount's current smash moneymaker, Two Years before the Mast, cost only $1,000,000 to make two years ago, about half of what it would cost today...
...News item: JERUSALEM, Oct. 7--"Operation Land," long and carefully planned by Jewish groups in Palestine as the next phase of Jewish resistance to the British policy of restricting Jewish immigration and land acquisition, was carried out successfully last night, when more than 1,000 Jewish settlers, including 300 girls, arrived in 200 trucks in the Negev, the southern desort part of Palestine, and established twelve settlements in the strategic district which the British had reserved for themselves under the "federalization plan...
...caricature," Samuel Sherwood '76, "a clever draughtsman," and Arthur Sherwood '77, "the life of every party which he joined," put their moustaches together in a back room of Matthews Hall and founded "The Harvard Lampoon, or Cambridge Charivari. Illustrated, Humorous, Etc." One of the earliest editions--a collectors' item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meerschaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," a pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid...
...hand, Austria hoped for U.S.-British aid and dreaded being left in the lurch by the West. A simple news item like General Mark Clark's confinement to Walter Reed Hospital (because of an ear infection) created a minor sensation. Jittery Chancellor Leopold Figl, formerly a model of imperturbability, inquired whether Clark's illness was not political...
...Another item of note was the appearance of Emil Drvaric, the first string guard who was yet to see action for the Varsity, in the day's scrimmage. Drvaric ran with the "A" team in its defensive practice, and participated in the contact session for about half an hour. It now seems likely that Drvaric will make his long-awaited debut on Saturday...