Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Songwriter Al Trace: "We always knew this music was in for keeps. Other stuff comes & goes, but this is the people . . . We play down to them, play requests and mention their names. We give them a good time and we play stuff they can dance to. How can you miss...
...girl who passes the finals will receive, over the air, a free course in English from Italian-born Actress Elissa Landi (who is also a novelist). For the past three years Miss Landi has been teaching radio & television students at the College of the City of New York how to tidy up their bad accents...
...Leeds, and Robin Ford, a scared real-estate man, the cops found big, sleepy-eyed Cinemactor Robert Mitchum. The handsome $3,000-a-week screen hero hastily tried to get rid of a cigarette that turned out to be marijuana. A detective found other "reefers" on Mitchum, Ford and Miss Leeds...
Christina Stead's prose is as hard and cold as a cake of ice. A sharp-eyed Australian now living in the U.S., Miss Stead specializes, with the murderous calm of a hangman slightly bored by his job, in dissecting egotists and connivers. One of her better novels, House of All Nations, was a long, superbly documented description of the world of high finance, which viciously satirized the European big money and led some critics to compare her, rather prematurely, to Balzac...
...latest novel, set in wartime Wall Street, Miss Stead shows all her old talents: her sure knowledge of financial intrigue, her talent for making distasteful characters come distastefully alive, and her needling, admirably unsentimental prose. Yet A Little Tea, a Little Chat is no pleasure to read...