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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Bernadotte's body was transferred to a plane; after stopping in Rome and Paris, where statesmen paid tribute to him, he was flown home...
...native city. He liked to shut himself up in his office with a basket of fruit and play symphony records. But he also had a good head for figures, and that made him immensely valuable to Eleanor Medill Patterson. He was her treasurer and confidant, and for 15 well-paid years his polished head and briefcase bulged with her undivulged secrets...
...Morton endured fraternity food as long as he could, then transferred his patronage to the Williams Inn. By this week, 29 years later, Morton had decided that his stomach had been a sounder guide than his heart. In the Atlantic Monthly, of which he is now associate editor, Morton paid his respects to Fraternity Row in an essay that the Greeks would probably have several words...
Beneath a gleaming chrome and glass marquee, celebrities swarmed one night this week to the opening of Manhattan's new $300,000 French movie theater, the Paris. They had paid $12.50 a head to look at one another and a movie (La Symphonic Pastorale), test the comfort of the 571 natural-birch seats, and sip coffee and bouillon in the lounge...
Sheep & Goats. Nanook cost $53,000 and the bill was paid by a fur company. Louisiana Story cost $258,000 and an oil company picked up the tab, specifying that its name was not to be tagged on the film. For oilmen, the film does its job by showing that oil comes from the sweat and courage of common men, not from an inanimate "industrial octopus." As a subtle piece of public relations, Louisiana Story may inspire many successors...