Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King was delighted. He called the Amethyst's escape a "daring exploit," personally ordered the frigate's crew to "splice the mainbrace"-break out an extra order of grog for all hands. In Shanghai, the Communist press ignored the Amethyst's escape completely. Shanghai British celebrated discreetly. "We're glad they're out of it," said one, "but there's no point in crowing over it. After all, we're still here...
...last week, Kerans decided to run the Communist gauntlet. At 10:12 p.m. he gave the order to sail. The Amethyst nosed out into the channel astern of a Yangtze freighter. At 10:23 p.m., the Communists discovered the Amethyst in motion when the steamer ahead of her was challenged by flares from the shore. The Communists opened up with heavy artillery and machine-gun fire. The Amethyst returned the fire. In London, the Admiralty received a message from the Amethyst: "Am under heavy fire and hit." Ten minutes later she messaged: "Still under heavy fire." At midnight the moon...
Because of radio's slump in billings, and the punishing cost of keeping television rolling, Schenley had picked a good moment to pop the question. As Variety noted last week, radio's scramble for new income had begun with giveaway shows, progressed through "deodorants, medical books, mail-order selling and questionable products" until today "the lid is off.. . . and practically . . . anything goes...
...Tallow Ball sold only a poky 15,000 copies a year until Haldeman-Julius re-christened it A Prostitute's Sacrifice (it jumped to about 55,000 a year).* The bestselling Blue Books are those on sex, psychoanalysis and self-improvement; Haldeman-Julius has them written to order by eight staffers scattered around the world. One of these, William J. Fielding, who works for Manhattan's swank Tiffany jewelers, wrote the alltime bestseller: What Married Women Should Know (493,000 copies...
Stanford was re-elected last June. When the town council of Brentwood refused to seat Stanford unless he took the full oath, including the clause on religion, he appealed to the Prince Georges County circuit court to order the council to seat him. Then he set about preparing his case for a hearing late this month. The court will be asked to decide whether the Maryland code is depriving Stanford of his constitutional rights under Amendment 14, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution, which protects basic civil rights of U.S. citizens from abridgment by any state...