Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house lights come up, and above the hubbub in the aisles one can hear a spectral voice pronounced in awe-filled tones, "The overture...Duel in the Sun..." And thus begins David O. Selznick's nine-million dollar horse opera. Of this pile of cash a very substantial share has been invested in what has been perhaps the most immense hoopla campaign since Thomas A. Edison invented the motion picture. Such an unparalelled barrage of publicity has been such a long stretch of time that quite a sizable fraction of the population already is intent upon seeing the picture...
...rummy, had overlooked a blaze in the bedroom. The visiting fireman (in dinner jacket, black tie) fell to "with a will for five minutes," it was reported, helped hotel employees drag a hose to the conflagration. Too late: the Baroness' $2,000 mink was just a pile of singed hair...
...Saturday's triangular tusale, the hardwork of the weight men went un-rewarded as they just could not pile up enough points to overcome the head start Rhode Island State gained in the running events...
Death Revealed. Langley Collyer, 61, shy Harlem hermit; of asphyxiation, under a pile of debris ten feet from the spot where the body of his blind brother was discovered 17 days earlier (TIME, April 7); in Manhattan. Death came to the recluse, police decided, when he hit a tripwire to one of the booby traps he kept in his rotting mansion to trap thieves, causing a pile of hoarded junk to fall and smother...
...still had his chipper spirits. But his Midas touch was gone. In 1936 he turned up in Asbury Park, N.J. as a lunchroom and supermarket owner. He plugged a dandruff cure on the side, operated a bowling alley in Flint. He still talked grandly of making a pile. But it was too late. Last week, in his eight-room apartment in Manhattan, Billy Durant, 85, died. Of the millions he had been "loaned" he left nothing...