Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office seemed to be climbing steadily out of its long postwar slump. Last week the Bureau of Internal Revenue announced that August was the fourth month this year to run ahead of 1948's corresponding month in admissions tax returns. To make things even brighter, Dr. George Gallup's Audience Research, Inc. reported a steady fall in the average price of admission paid by U.S. moviegoers. With total receipts on the rise, that spelled growing attendance. The average spent for a ticket in August was 45?, compared to a postwar peak of 48.8? early in the year...
Savage Splendor (RKO Radio) is a magnificent Technicolored record of an African safari, filmed by Armand Denis (who eleven years ago produced Dark Rapture) and Lewis Cotlow. To make it, the Denis-Cotlow expedition traveled some 22,000 miles back & forth across
...known in Britain and almost unheard of in the U.S., bubble like a social melting pot that can boil down everything from cutaways to galluses. Nor is any one of them much like its fellows, because both Henry Yorke and pseudonymous Henry Green love to court new experiences and make fresh experiments. Since his proletarian years, Henry Yorke has graduated into big business: he is now managing director, in London, of his old Birmingham firm, H. Pontifex & Sons. In World War II, he worked full time as a fire-fighting "ranker," i.e., enlisted man in the hazardous National Fire Service...
Butler Charley is an ambitious rogue with a bad conscience, a double man who is torn between his desire to make hay while the sun shines in neutral Eire and his realization that his manly pride depends on his returning to embattled Britain. Similarly, he is the sort of a man who loves to hide his capacity for love and loyalty under a leering, winking mask of sexy chatter and innuendo ("Let me tell you," he assured young Albert, referring to the departed French governess, "there was many an occasion I went up to Mam-selle's boudoir...
Divide & Conquer. In Manhattan, two ex-convicts who had joined forces to rob pretty Eleanor Joly were nabbed by police when they came around again to make separate social calls...