Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Picasso, 67, leading post-impressionist and a founder of cubism, was seriously dabbling again in realism. For Paris' Communist-sponsored "World Congress of Partisans of Peace," scheduled for later this month, he had painted a dove of peace that looked just like a dove. The bird, trilled Communist L'Humanite, was "vital and soft. Its plumage shines and drives back the shadows...
...April Fool stunt was another Shevelson attempt to pep up the pocket-sized magazine he took over 15 months ago. In the year and a half before he arrived, Pageant had lost $400,000, and Publisher Alex L. Hillman (who also owns a dozen pulps and comics) was getting ready to shut it down. Intense, hard-working Harris Shevelson, who had moved over from the managing editor's chair at Coronet, zipped up Pageant's articles and covers, put in more pictures. Circulation for March was 350,000, and 400,000 copies were printed for April. Pageant...
John was given four operations, spread over eight months. Surgeon Frank L. Meany built a new bridge for his nose and thinned his lips. All his misshapen teeth were pulled and he got false teeth. The usual cost of all this facial improvement would have been around $3,000; John paid only $35 for dental material...
...high time, thought State Representative Floyd L. Snyder, that the Missouri Waltz be established as Missouri's official state song. He introduced a bill to make it so. Then, to be sure all his fellow legislators could hum what they were voting for, he invited the orchestra of Missouri's Lincoln University (for Negroes) to swing through it for them. There was only one thing Snyder forgot: the lyrics...
...reductions were made, said Continental President L. J. Gunson, because of the "postwar readjustment" (gobbledygook for falling sales) and the prospect of increased supplies. Schenley Industries also cut the price on one smaller-selling blend...