Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beginning as his secretary, Mug moved up to a quasi-partnership in Arthur Godfrey Productions, Inc., and has frequently been subject to fitful bursts of Godfrey generosity. At one time or another he has given her a secretarial education, a sloop, a farm in North Carolina, a Pontiac, a mink coat. Godfrey, referring both to her efficiency and her stubbornness, describes Mug as "my left arm-with my right hand on it." He superstitiously credits her with being a good-luck piece, and is apt to blame failures, like his dismal showing in the 1946 Broadway musical Three to Make...
...such haggling was really going on, it could be that Moscow had learned nothing in Yugoslavia and was rushing to create a greater Titoism in China. On the other hand, it could be that "Maoism" was in the making-a junior partnership for the Chinese in a joint Red drive toward Japan and Southeast Asia that would bring booty enough for all the comrades...