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Word: ll (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife, Bertha, and his daughter, Cherie Coppeliano, went to visit him in the death house. At lunch time, Sheridan told them: "Now, you folks go on uptown and have a nice lunch. When you get back, we'll have a nice talk." Sheridan stared after them as long as his eyes could follow. Then he called a guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Another Cup of Coffee | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...minute CBS show last year, Burrows tried his song parodies on a mass audience. After 29 weeks, his sponsor dropped his option. Explained Burrows: "That's the equivalent of where in another business the boss says, 'I'll trouble you for your key to the washroom.' It leads to unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Just for the Laugh | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...ruled out illustrations of girls in two-piece bathing suits, printed no fiction in which those who flaunted "the code" came to an unregenerate or glorified end. (By contrast, the June Cosmopolitan features an illustration of a boudoir nude, and captions a sympathetic short story about adultery: "You'll Find It Difficult to Con demn Them as Human Beings.") When Redbook lost $400,000 last year, President Marvin Pierce of McCall Corp. (which also publishes McCall's) decided that it might pay to edit the magazine for a younger audience, and get a bustling young editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Booster | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...Johnson think they will be able to get the visual intimacy they need. Their only other problem, according to Chic Johnson: "We've got to figure a way of jumping out of the TV set and into people's parlors. It may take time but we'll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Laugh Factory | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...coal early. This year, I'm waiting. Prices are slipping every day and if you don't need something there is no sense buying it.' The Boyles also need new clothes, shoes, furniture for the living room and dining room, lamps, but-'We'll just get by,' says Mrs. Boyle, 'until the prices come down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watching the Ball Game | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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