Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connolly was frank to say that he did not think they would. Founded in 1939 with the money of dairy-fortune heir Peter Watson and the brains of waspish, cherubic Editor Connolly and Poet Stephen Spender, Horizon never reached more than 10,000 subscribers, though it was probably the best of the little magazines. Lately circulation and advertising had been slipping and costs rising. More important, the galaxy of literary lights who had once brightened its pages-T. S. Eliot, Arthur Koestler, Evelyn Waugh-have not shown there in the last year...
...extra leverage in prying more salary out of Boss Branch Rickey than the estimated $22,000 he got this year. Said Robinson: "I don't know how much there was to those rumors about Mr. Rickey wanting to sell me, but I know one thing. I'll never leave Brooklyn. If I was sold . . . I'd quit." He might quit anyhow, he thought, after one more season. It was also a big week for Jackie Robinson Jr., who celebrated his third birthday with his parents and neighborhood friends...
Cummings, with his ninth straight recording on the turntable, relented. "I never went for Mule Train" he explained mildly. "The only way to get my fans around to my way of thinking was to play the tune to death...
...name began to climb toward the top of popularity polls for the country's most popular male vocalist and bandleader, he still kept up his barnstorming. (He still averages 200 one-night stands, covers 50,000 miles a year.) A small-town boy himself, he was never too busy to launch local Community Chest or Christmas Seal drives...
...Superb. Morison, another breed of sea dog entirely, is rapidly but thoroughly chewing on the bigger chunk (14 projected volumes) that he has bitten off. To judge from the first five, Morison's history may well be the permanent hull which future workmen will occasionally caulk but never have to dismantle. Because "he has had full access to captured enemy documents and has used them with imaginative skill as well as care, his accounts of battle action have a quality of two-sidedness which dissolves crude jingoism. In Coral Sea and Guadalcanal, as in his three earlier books (Battle...