Word: platter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the broadcast, Fulton Lewis whisked his prize off to his farm near Hollywood, Md., proudly stood by as Jordan elaborated his story for other reporters. "It is now apparent that Harry Hopkins gave Russia the A-bomb on a platter," said Jordan. Kotikov would call the Russian embassy, he said, and the embassy would "plug in Harry Hopkins at the White House-they had a direct wire . . . Hopkins and I got to know each other very well over the phone...
...first in a series of "Union Platter Parties" will be held at 8:30 p.m. Saturday night in the Union, John S. Hermann '53, Chairman of the Union Dance Committee, announced last night...
PETER ARNO'S SIZZLING PLATTER (118 pp.)-Simon & Schuster...
Number eight in his caravan of cartoon collections, Peter Arno's Sizzling Platter revives the gawking, girl-crazy old hell-raiser for a few sad appearances. He still lassoes his prey with diamond necklaces ("You certainly know my Achilles' heel, Mr. Benson"), buys yachts ("How many does it-er-sleep?"), invests in mink ("She got it by going 'brrrr' in front of Bergdorf's"). But what may be his final fling finds him corralled at last by a barbed-wire surtax: while his stern better half sits guard near by, the fat, fading Park Avenue...
...hang them in a "serious" one-man show later this season. But he admits that he finds his fans (and the editors of The New Yorker, where most of his work appears) unrelenting. "They have to have a joke," he says sadly, "or they want no part of it." Platter buyers will quickly...