Word: itemize
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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...