Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theater operating. With Playwright Russel Crouse, Actor Elliott Nugent and others, he bought a Broadway theater (the Hudson)-"so we needn't be subject to certain guys' whims and fancies." Naturally he also bought into the first show which he hopes will be produced there, a fall item for Boris Karloff being written by Lindsay and Crouse...
...Agony Column. In Manhattan, a mother inserted an item in the personal notices: "Julius. You're IA. Come home...
Twofers. In Topeka, Kans., Pete Reilly got an idea for a war-bond rally from an 1878 newspaper item: "Hug socials are now the rage. It costs 10? to hug anyone between 15 and 20, 5? from 20 to 30, $1 to hug another man's wife, bachelor girls two for a nickel, and woman lectur ers free with a chromo thrown...
There is a little item in a recent issue of the "New Yorker," easily overlooked, but significant just the same. Seems that a friend of the publication had occasion to visit Boston to see his favorite physician about a case of ulcers. Well, our subject, arriving at South Station, forthwith boarded a cab and was whisked to the Copley. What happened to him in the taxicab need not concern us here. To the ear of the trained Bostonian, however, the combination of "South Station" and "Copley" lacks a certain logical connection...
troops overseas is volleyball. Last week the Army's Special Service Division cited the game's advantages - advantages-simple equipment, a small court easy to camouflage, plenty of action for every player-and said they had shipped more volleyballs overseas than any other item of sports equipment...