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Word: itemize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, without apology or explanation, Keyholer Winchell printed another item: "License plate NYC i is owned by I. Geist (Manhattan Blouse Manufacturer Irving Geist). The Mayor uses a tag with many numbers. NYC i was in front of Tiffany's recently, which explains why a tipster thought His Honor was on a doodad spending spree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Doodads & Denials | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Before he left, there was a final flurry of victorious communiques. Item: Frank Sinatra and Edgar Bergen had joined the talented throng (e.g., Amos 'n' Andy, Jack Benny, Red Skelton) that had deserted NBC for Paley's CBS. Item: Prudential Insurance Co. had lent CBS $5,000,000 to add muscle to the network's already long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Paley's Comet | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...villagers had a scheme in mind to spend it so that all the citizens of resurrected Warren might benefit. They would turn it to furniture for a public building. Cabinetmaker Groot Landeweer thought a sturdy oak chair carved with Borculo's coat of arms would make a good item. Parchmentmaker Nathan Elzas put aside a particularly fine calfskin. That, he was certain, could be turned into several lampshades that would be just right for Warren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Oliebollen for Warren | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...There was one item about Humphrey's life which I failed to find out. He was quite a busy little man during the early forties, and perhaps he was not aware that we had a war from 1941 to 1945. Most of our youth his age laid aside personal ambitions for two or more years during that period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...mobilize the workers and peasants for socialist construction," Moscow's party line in literature calls for "socialist romanticism." Last week, a Czech newsman and poet named Arno Kraus turned out such an item, made Page One of Prague's Lidove Noviny (People's Newspaper) with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Socialist Romanticism | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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