Word: jo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parents of the late mush-mouthed Comic Jo−who were bequeathed a third of his $100,000 estate-settled out of court a suit they had brought against his widow, charging that she was extravagant in buying a $9,579 marble crypt...
...pleasure-seekers. No liquor is served, but there is dancing to hot name bands, with pretty show girls and such movie stars as Bette Davis and Janet Gaynor waiting to be picked off as partners. On the walls are gay murals by the theater's top scene designers-Jo Mielziner, Donald Oenslager, Raoul Pène du Bois, Gertrude Lawrence, Eddie Cantor, the dancing De Marcos, the Quiz Kids with Tallulah Bankhead as Quizmaster, are part of the endless floor show. The food is good, and Producer Brock Pemberton, Novelist Carl Van Vechten, Actor Sam Jaffe are among...
Hourglass. To the public observer, nothing startlingly new had developed. Premier Hideki To jo had made a violent and militant speech. Japanese troop transports, supposedly 70 strong, were supposedly still pouring fresh Japanese divisions into French Indo-China, for a possible thrust into Thailand and at the Burma Road, last artery of aid to China (see p. 27). But the Dutch were mobilized to the spit-&-polish point in Batavia; not only Singapore but all of the Straits Settlements were in a state of emergency; at Hong Kong every British soldier was at war post; U.S. Marines arrived at Olongapo...
...fate of Russia appeared to depend on the U.S. keeping open the supply line to Vladivostok. If Russia capitulated or went down in defeat, Hitler would reach the borders of China; Japan, the shores of Siberia; and the Axis would be in a position to seize Africa (see p. jo). Nobody was clairvoyant enough to visualize all the possibilities, but one thing was clear. The U.S. could not make separate decisions in the Atlantic and the Pacific. The war in the East and the war in the West were one. It was now plain that the U.S. could count...
...most famous of U.S. portrait sculptors, glowering, grey-bearded Jo Davidson -dubbed "the headhunter" by the late Will Rogers because he has sculped more famous heads than any of his contemporaries-last week returned to the U.S. from his latest hunting trip. Sponsored by Nelson Rockefeller's committee for neighborly love, the trip had taken him through nine South American countries, where he had bagged portrait heads of nine Presidents and one ex-President (Venezuela's Eleazar Lopez Contreras...