Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to be." He has always arranged his days with a whim of iron, and he refuses to be bored for as long as 15 minutes at a time. Such a schedule requires a certain ruthlessness, and Porter's Broadway associates and friends have learned to make the best...
...likes them kept so neat that at parties a servant cleans them up almost before a guest can crunch a cigarette out. When Porter went to Philadelphia for Kate's 3½-week tryout, he took along five paintings, including a large Grandma Moses snowscape, to make his hotel suite homelike...
Capitalist Come-Ons. Such pressure on the staff does not make for lively writing. To get the paper as read as it is Red, the Worker started printing such capitalist come-ons as cartoon strips and columns on homemaking, sports and Broadway. The party line comes through, even in the Broadway column by Barnard Rubin, ex-corporal on the Pacific Stars and Stripes. (When he was kicked off the paper by General MacArthur in 1946, Rubin denied he was a Communist, and yowled that MacArthur was infringing on freedom of the press-TIME, March u, 1946. Rubin started working...
...Little Research. The U.S., Hirsh concludes, may as well admit that it is a "drinking society," and "make provision for those among us too ill to cope with it." Prohibition is "as unscientific as it is unrealistic." But Hirsh is no pessimist. Psychiatry can help, he thinks. So can such organizations as Alcoholics Anonymous...
With all the sedate modesty of a skilled campaigner, Paley described his victory as "rather casual and ordinary." Negotiations with Bing, he said, had taken about three weeks and everything else about the deal is a "trade secret." Crosby and Skelton are expected to make the move to CBS this fall...