Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week Walker writes a column naturally enough entitled "Broadway," for an estimated 5,000,000 readers of the News, (circulation: 2,000,000) and seven other metropolitan newspapers. Only a handful of Danton Walker's columns this year have featured the old-style, peeping-Tom type of item; most of his columns, filled now chiefly with predictions, are about such non-Broadway matters as gas rationing, the Ruml tax plan, the war, Interior Secretary Ickes. Broadway Columnist Walker now works the universe...
This is a description of the work of the late great Uruguayan painter Pedro Figari, one of whose pictures was on view last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Spatially speaking, Figari was only a single small item in a splendiferous show of the Museum's 224 new acquisitions of modern, Latin American art.* No institution has a finer collection of work from south of the border...
...over China and Burma. And when the A.V.G. was disbanded it rose more raucously than ever before. Mickey put his back up against joining the Army. He had become indispensable, so the uproar he raised brought results. He was commissioned an ensign in the Navy, is still without an item of uniform except a Navy...
...Another item which Bob Henderson promises to tell us all about next week is the new athletic program. We know that "everyone will play softball" and drill once a week. And it 'pears as though we'll have an eight-car crew if enough men are interested. Incidentally, the Army is about to "dispense with" some thirty odd horses, residents of Soldiers Field Stables. We had hoped to get some free rides now and then, but in view of circumstances, all we can hope now is that the Army deals kindly with our equine friends...
...been Joseph Beecham's idea, but he was finally converted to his son's music, began to back him. In 1914 Joseph Beecham's long passion for theatrical properties reached a climax when (in a syndicate) he bought no less an item than London's Covent Garden Opera House, complete with the vast Covent Garden vegetable market that adjoins it. When World War I broke, Beecham pere's colleagues backed out, left him holding the bag. In the bag was nominal ownership of the Opera House, the adjoining market, nine other theaters, and an unpaid...