Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy arrangement. The police gave the balloonist a night's lodging. The London paper offered to telephone his wife and pay his way back to Belgium in return for an exclusive story. "I accepted," said van der Straeten, "and suddenly learned just what journalism is-six parts money and four parts acrobatics." The acrobatics began the next day. When the other reporters arrived, the Daily Express men shoved him from one room to another and jammed him into closets to hide him from their rivals. "I need," said proud Joseph van der Straeten, home at last in Knocke...
...TIME, Sept. 12) loves his mother. Or so he says. While thousands of determined young carabinieri, aided by airplanes, combed the hot Sicilian hills for him last week, Giuliano henchmen boldly invaded Palermo and put up handbills: "You, carabinieri! Have you not reflected that I do not fight for money, but for the love of my mother, which God has given us as the dearest thing in our lives? Just think that there can be no family without a mother . . . What reason can you give for defining me as a bloodthirsty scoundrel if I kill you only because I feel...
...Milburn ("Duke") Holmes of North Platte, Neb. "They won't accept our cigarettes and want us to smoke their smelly black tobacco. I haven't been able to pay for a glass of sherry in town-but they sure look as if they could use some extra money or some food...
...Manhattan's George Magnani, president of Magnani Mannequins, displayed a fashion dummy that talks. Named Patty Petiteen, the mannequin will plug dresses for the ten to 14 age group. Sample sales talk: "Mother loves my Petiteen dresses because they need no alteration and have a money-back guarantee." The voice of the mannequin, developed by Audio-Visual Advertising Co., comes from a loudspeaker concealed inside the chest, and is synchronized with lip movements. Price: $284. ¶ Illinois Institute of Technology's Armour Research Foundation announced a cheap method for adding sound to 8-and 16-mm. home movies...
Died. Macdonald Smith, 59, for almost 40 years one of golf's great stylists; of a heart attack; in Glendale, Calif. Although "the Silent Scot" made out handsomely in prize money (he won the Los Angeles Open four times), he never won a major tournament...