Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Puerto Ricans rejoiced. The U.S. Department of the Interior, which helped push the election bill through Congress, was happy, too. Said Under Secretary Oscar L. Chapman: "People and nations all over the world . . . will see in [this law] evidence that the U.S. puts into practice its principles of democracy and self-determination...
Gromyko lives in the 40-room mansion built by the late Ogden L. Mills at Woodbury, L.I. It is hidden behind high walls and 182 landscaped acres (including a superb 17th Century-style formal garden...
...moviegoers got a clap on the back from Jack L Warner of Hollywood's Warner Brothers. His considered estimate of the fans: "the most adult-minded audiences in motion picture history." Responsible for this grown-upness: "early mental maturing . . . via the newspapers and radio, as well as the screen...
...editor of Harper's Bazaar, was doing front-line duty in Paris. Both were ecstatic about derrieres, guepieres (little waist corsets), and a French designer of "magnificent courage" named Christian Dior (the man who, abetted by some Americans, first dared to lower skirts after the death of L-85, the Wartime material-hoarding order...
Publisher Alex L. Hillman started it in November 1944, to add a touch of prestige to his profitable, hurdy-gaudy string (comic books, Real Romances, Crime Detective, etc.). Pageant went out for good bylines, good pictures and no reprints. But neither Eugene Lyons, its first editor, nor Vernon Pope, its last (since May 1945), had the paper to justify promoting Pageant into competition with The Reader's Digest or Coronet. In the past 18 months, Pageant (circ. 270,000) has lost $400,000 for Publisher Hillman, mainly because of rising printing and paper costs. Pope and most...