Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coffee port of New Orleans, Publisher Ralph Nicholson of the Item deleted the name of Detective Dick Tracy's current villain "Coffyhead" from every strip, making gibberish out of some of the speeches and captions. ("Coffyhead" is a no-good who earned his nickname by always brewing his evil deeds over a cup of coffee.) Publisher Nicholson explained that he considered the name "a nasty and unfair reflection on a fine beverage...
...Junior Year Abroad", and the Institute for International Education has been called for specifically. Furthermore NSA has secured a seat on the United States commission for UNESCO (international commission chairman Robert Smith 1G will occupy it) in an effort to take part in top-level intercultural activities. In the item personally crucial to many here-student travel during the summer months-the commission has been instructed to begin negotiations immediately for low-cost transportation on special Maritime Commission ships, equalization of fares for the sexes, and arrangements whereby one can work for his passage...
Acting only one day after registration, the Student Council will meet for the first time this term tonight at 7:15 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House, with the presentation of the annual budget expected to be the most important single item on the agendas...
...those 17 years, Chippie had changed some, but not her voice. It was still brash and undisciplined, often nasally unmusical and handicapped by careless phrasing. But at her unpredictable best, Chippie handled the blues with the loving and instinctive expertness of her collectors' item records of the middle '20s, when she worked with Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, and Earl ("Father") Hines. She had quit singing in 1930 to bring up her four kids (later there were three more). When Jazz Pedant Rudi Blesh found her three months ago she was scraping trays in a Chicago cafeteria...
Bartók: String Quartet No. 4 (Guilet String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 6 sides). Like most of Bartók's experimental work, this is mostly hard going. Performance: good. Memorial Album (Vox, 4 sides). A collector's item: Bartók at the piano plays superbly some of his best Hungarian folk music. Recording: fair...