Word: maker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ukulele is plunk in the middle of a comeback, said Uke Maker Jay Kraus last week. He expected about 300,000 to sell this year-nothing like the 1,000,000 sold to flappers and friends in 1925, but good as compared with the 40,000-to-60,000 average in the early '40s. One explanation for the demand: frog-voiced Arthur Godfrey's use of the uke on his television show...
...traditional bloc of 110,000 to 130,000 machine-turned votes. They were Horace Edwards, 46, former mayor of Richmond, who broke with the machine last year when Byrd tried to keep Harry Truman's name off Virginia's ballot ; and Remmie L. Arnold, a pen & pencil maker and inveterate "joiner" (he is slated to become Imperial Potentate of the Shrine...
Zaim's model seems to be neither Mussolini nor Franco, but Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the maker of modern Turkey. Damascus, until recently one of the most orthodox Moslem capitals in the Middle East, is yielding fast to modern influences. Zaim helped show the way by taking his wife to a cocktail party-a step almost unheard of in Syria. The Moslem veil for women is gradually disappearing and the men's traditional tarbush (red fez) has been going out of style ever since Zaim began appearing at official ceremonies without...
...London's 30th International Horse Show. After hitting two poles, two gates and a brick wall, he placed fourth from last. Said the prince gallantly of his gal lant mount: "She is a good mare and the faults were mine." Rewards & Returns George Catlett Marshall, a policy maker of some reputation, was elected a director of Pan American Airways Corp...
...believe that the Maker of man has deposited in the human body drugs in abundance to cure all infirmities . . . that all the remedies necessary to health are compounded within the human body...