Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorkers, who thought they had experienced just about everything there was in the line of strikes, blinked incredulously at an item last week in their skinny, adless newspapers (see PRESS). It was a short interview with Michael J. Cashal, first vice president of old Dan Tobin's International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which was involved in New York City's walkout of truck drivers (TIME, Sept. 16). Said Brother Cashal: "This strike is a rotten mess...
...nightclub comedian to crack: "I'm so weak I can't even lift a copy of today's Mirror V) Whistling shrilly to keep up its courage, the starveling Mirror ran a daily silver-lining box. Sample: "The Mirror . . . has become a collector's item. In time, the paper which you buy for 2? . . will be sold by dealers in rare issues for $5 and $10 a copy...
...result of almost constant pressure by a militant committee set up during the summer term to investigate Student Council activities, the Council bas slated a study of its constitution, by laws, and procedure as the first item on a busy fall agenda, when the Council meets this evening in Phillips Brooks House...
This long, dull, maddeningly unmotivated story wastes the hard-working actors, famed Director Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven, Farewell to Arms), the Technicolor, the dressy sets. Only item worth the expense: the brilliant piano playing on the sound track by Artur Rubinstein, who was paid $85,000-a whopping price, even in Hollywood, for a musical background...
...morning program, sleepily announcing the time, playing drowsy records, yawning through newscasts and here & there decorating the day's first commercials with slyly adverse comments on their sponsors. All this is unrehearsed blarney. His secretary Margaret ("Mug") Richardson, hands him a slew of advertising copy and news oddments (item: "The United States Government has bought 1,000 dead horses"), and "Red" Godfrey starts spieling...