Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week 45-year-old Ralph Nicholson, owner-publisher of the New Orleans Item, named a new editor in chief: 40-year-old Clayton Fritchey...
...Briggs' mother, Mrs. Franz Rosebush. Said she: "Yes, it's true, but I wasn't going to announce it until Ruth said so." Newsweek had also mentioned Mary Churchill and the widowed Duchess of Kent as possible fiancees. Walter Winchell leaped into the fray, reprinted an item from his column of March 20: "Roosevelt intimates still insist the rumors about Elliott's next being Winston Churchill's daughter Mary are unfounded. That he never even met her. The fact is that Elliott's favorite person abroad is a WAC captain." In London, Colonel Roosevelt...
Many a layman was struck by an odd item of news about the giant new B29. To avoid certain mysterious "supersonic" effects on the propeller tips, the whirling of its 16-foot-long propellers had to be geared down to one-third of the speed of revolution of the plane's engines...
...every man's mind-Hump-Happy. Last week Hump-Happy was on tour. From its purely local start, it had humped through hundreds of performances on the jungle circuit. From Burma's border to the African Gold Coast it is the Army's No. 1 entertainment item...
...Nate got as a contractor looked juicy $100,000 to paint the corridors of Washington's U.S. Agriculture Building. The catch: there were eleven miles of corridor; it took him three years to paint them. Painter Schriber made up for the loss in later Government work. One item: painting the White House. The thought of this job scares him a little; some 40 coats of white lead over the years must be quite a strain on the walls, he thinks...