Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mothers and children (aged 8 to 13) disagreed completely on most programs. The children voted for thrillers ("I want a blood-curdling murder," wrote one) while the mothers plumped for news and historical broadcasts. Only a few children approved those marked "Excellent" by the mothers: Roses and Drums, Current Events, Today's News, Great Moments in History, MARCH OF TIME. Only in Comedian Eddie Cantor did the two viewpoints meet. Rated "Good" by the mothers, he was the children's first choice. Next in popularity came Little Orphan Annie, who advertises Ovaltine and provides beetleware Orphan Annie Mugs...
...Dern ore roaster. A moneymaker, he bought into banks, power companies, canneries, is today one of Utah's wealthier citizens. As a progressive Democrat, he was elected Governor in 1924, re-elected in 1928. A Congregationalist, he gets on well with the Mormons. His favorite parlor game is "Murder." Once when he was playing the murderer, he accidentally knocked out a guest.* Of military, experience the new Secretary of War has had none. As he set out for Washington, his chief interest centred in the Army's engineering projects. Said he: "I'm strong for Roosevelt...
...Rules of Murder: A prosecutor, chosen at random, is sent from the room. Cards are dealt face down to the other players, the one receiving the Queen of Spades becoming the murderer. All lights are extinguished. The murderer must find a victim, throttle it. The victim screams. After the scream the murderer may take only four steps, other players must stand in their tracks. All players must answer the Prosecutor truthfully except the murderer who may lie freely. The Prosecutor may openly accuse only one suspect...
...partner's wife (Joan Barry), a fuzzy British tourist with a regurgitative chuckle (Gordon Harker), a U. S. millionaire traveling with his secretary, a chief of police, a nervous spinster. The picture thief's accomplice renews an old romance with the cinemactress while the picture thief is murdering a timid little rascal for stealing a Van Dyck which, through a confusion of briefcases, finds its way into the compartment of the U. S. millionaire. The businessman is suspected of the murder, cleared about the time the train reaches Rome...
...been persuaded to pool resources, experiment with a one-column advt. every other week. Price: $1,800. Each publishing house will advertise one book in each insertion. First four books, already solid successes, to be advertised in the March 25 issue: The Bulpington of Blup (Macmillan), The Kennel Murder Case (Scribner), Mutiny on the Bounty (Little, Brown), Forgive Us Our Trespasses (Houghton Mifflin). Each title will have to sell 2,000 copies (profit: 25? per volume) to make the advertisement repay its publisher...