Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voice cracking, Songstress Judy Garland husked out two songs for her audience at Ben Maksik's huge (2,000 capacity) Town & Country Club in Brooklyn, then said: "I'm sorry, I have terrible laryngitis. But it doesn't matter anyhow because I have just been fired." With that, Judy vanished to her dressing room. Fired or not, both Judy and irate Ben Maksik had had enough. Claiming that he had advanced her $40,000 (not so, said Judy) for her scheduled 3½ week act at $25,000 a week, Maksik argued that his star had reneged...
...Knickerbocker (who once interviewed Stalin's mother), the Chicago Tribune's William (Berlin Diary) Shirer, and Author Sheean, Correspondent Gunther busily soaked up lore and legends that never made the news stories. Gunther's most valuable mentor: the New York Evening Post's M. W. (''Mike") Fodor, dean of Balkan correspondents, who helped the young Chicagoan so generously that fellow newsmen later dubbed Inside Europe "Inside Fodor...
...believe," says he, "in myself-with fingers crossed." Puffing thoughtfully on his ever-present Marlboro, Gunther adds: "I have no deep, institutionalized religious beliefs. I believe in the fact." On looking inside Gunther-despite his deep faith in his prowess as a journalist-Gunther finds: "I'm terribly limited. I completely lack intensity of soul. I'm not original. I'm really only a competent observer who works terribly hard at doing a job well...
Says Cold-Fighter Ritchie: "Even now, as a canny Scot, I'm scairt to say too much about these results. What we need is more people to do similar tests in many thousands of cases...
Michigan: "I live like a damned dog. I am supporting my wife, my four children and myself (all in one establishment) on take-home pay of $3,600. This is if I'm lucky. All the rest, if any, goes to the credit managers. Moral-the least you can do at Little, Brown (in addition to shooting four or five credit boys) is send me free books...