Word: lancasterism
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Sorry, Wrong Number. Inflated but fairly exciting movie version of the radio thriller about a bedridden woman who learns that she is about to be murdered, with Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster (TIME, Sept. 20).
Hugh Dalton, who draws down $20,000 a year as Britain's Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (a cabinet sinecure), made a major concession to the harsh facts of modern British life: "because of the rise in the cost of living" he swore off cigarettes* (he had been...
Sorry, Wrong Number. Inflated but fairly exciting movie version of the radio thriller about a bedridden woman who learns that she is about to be murdered, with Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster (TIME, Sept. 20).
Dividends. In Boyne City, Mich., Mrs. Hudson Robinson cut open a fish, found the earring she had lost two years ago at a fish hatchery. In Lancaster, Pa., Fisherman Cyrus Dietrich pulled in his line, found a five-dollar bill on his hook.
Passes & Profits. Springs first applied his zany bounce to business with the Lancaster & Chester Railway, a 29-mile line which his father bought to ship goods to & from his two mills.