Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With no more paper available for Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit (500,000 copies), Reynal & Hitchcock are now issuing red and green certificates, at $2.75 each, entitling the holder to a copy early in 1945. In the first three weeks, bookstores ordered 6,000 certificates...
Tallulah Bankhead, husky, loud-spoken actress who played the lead (1939) in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, took umbrage at Playwright Hellman's comment in Moscow: "An actor doesn't make much difference to the play" (TIME, Dec. 4). Quoth Miss Bankhead: "I loathe Lillian. ... A remark like hers is beneath the contempt of an actor. She doesn't know what she's talking about. I'd like to see what some of her plays would be like with a second-rate cast. ... Of course, she's really a wonderful playwright...
...horror picture, the thought kept buzzing through his head: "I have killed a woman, and no one here knows about it." When the picture was over he walked into another bar and ordered wine. He watched a woman at the bar. After a while she smiled. Her name was Lillian Johnson...
Brain Food. In Kalamazoo, Librarian Lillian Anderson opened a returned book, withdrew the bookmark - a dried fish...
...Facilities for disabled are listed in another book, out this week: Normal Lives for the Disabled (Macmillan, $2.50) by Edna Yost in collaboration with Dr. Lillian Moller Gilbreth who, with her husband, late Dr. Frank B. Gilbreth, developed many industrial jobs for handicapped men after World War I. * For those who need it, the Institute offers job training. There are over 2,000 kinds of jobs that handicapped people can fill, 275 of them for people with arm injuries. The value of such people to industry is beginning to be appreciated (TIME, June...