Word: maker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...embarrassment at not being able to make a reasonable showing when his son Timmy asks him why Columbus discovered America. George undertakes to tell Sam what a reasonable answer might have included. The discussion soon ranges casually from business conditions in the Age of Discovery to Ptolemy the map maker...
John Golden, top money-maker of all Broadway producers during the last 28 years (recent big hit: Claudia), "rich uncle" to thousands of stage-struck youngsters and hard-pressed oldsters, set up a $100,000 fund for his pet project: a subsidized national theater...
...when he tried to flee that equally occupied country. Died. Juliana Cutting, 73, New York's premier social secretary ; after a stroke ; in Manhattan. The granddaughter of Banker Robert Livingston Cutting, she made her debut in 1890; when the family fortune faded, set herself up as a party maker to Society. Blue-eyed, blue-blooded Miss Cutting recommended "a boy and a half to a girl if a dinner dance, and two to one if a supper dance," kept a famed blue book of 2,000 acceptable young men (Miss Cutting's List), admitted only 100 debutantes...
...Last week Publisher Field bought a money maker: Cincinnati's Radio Station WSAI (5,000 watts, Blue Network), for upwards of $525,000 -subject to approval of the Federal Communications Commission, which had ordered WSAI divorced from Crosley Corp. and its superpowered (50,000 watts) Station...
...Irish man, and speeches by General Buncombe ("Sir, we want elbow room - the continent, the whole continent - and nothing but the continent"). The U.S. talent for epithet is flaunted in: "The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mounted, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of the Ozarks." The U.S. love of violence runs riot in stories about hard-knuckled, sure-shooting, two-gunned desperadoes, tough pioneers, chain-gang Negroes...