Word: nine
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...fortune and a Broadway winner's fame as a nightclub proprietor and as one of the greatest showmen of his time. As a columnist (at roughly $52,000 a year), he is currently showing impressive stamina and speed in a fiercely competitive branch of journalism. After only nine months of newspaper distribution, Columnist Billy Rose's "Pitching Horseshoes" has landed in some 145 papers with an estimated 18 million (Billy's estimate) total circulation...
Billy picked up the art of songwriting in his own brash but methodical way. He spent three months, nine hours a day, in the New York Public Library dissecting hit songs of the previous 30 years. All popular songs, he cunningly concluded, fell into well-defined categories: 1) love songs, 2) nonsense songs, 3) jingles, 4) songs built around a silly syllable. Of these syllables, Billy discovered, the double-o sound-"oo"-was the most successful. On this principle, he carefully constructed some sound effects called Barney Google ("with the goo goo googly eyes"). Just as his calculations had indicated...
...original Baby Snooks routines (which Billy wrote), it thudded again. Billy rewrote the show a second time, renamed it Crazy Quilt, and took it on the road. Billed as "A Saturnalia of Wanton Rhythm Featuring Exotic Divertissements," Crazy Quilt played to packed houses at almost every stop. In nine months, Rose recouped his $75,000 outlay and made $240,000 clear profit...
Last week, Pierino walked briskly on to the stage of Paris' Palais de Chaillot, dressed in a Little Lord Fauntleroyish black velvet jacket, white lace collar, and short pants. The podium had been built up so nine-year-old Pierino could see all of the 70 musicians of the Association des Concerts Lamoureux. He conducted Schubert's Unfinished without a score, and handled it decisively. He was less certain in Beethoven's Fifth-the brasses got away from him in the finale. But he did well enough to touch off 20 minutes of cheers. Pierino took seven...
Psychiatrists think the strains are severe right now-what with the international situation, economic worries, a rising divorce rate, the disintegration of family life and the readjustment difficulties of veterans. The A.P.A. estimates that there are between eight and nine million psychoneurotics in the postwar...