Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once inclined to go overboard on horse bets, he tries to hew to a pocket-money allowance of $125 doled out weekly by a Wall Street law firm, which receives his income, pays his bills, nourishes his annuities and tends to the dozen companies lumped under the name Milton Berle Enterprises, Inc. Among his interests: a machine tool company, a furniture factory, real estate, music publishing, a toy business, a producing company...
...deal gave Grosset and Curtis, already teamed up in the distribution of Bantam Books (25?), a new punch to throw at their big competitors, Marshall Field's Simon & Schuster (which puts out the 25? Golden Books for children) and his Pocket Books...
Died. Prince Louis Honoré Charles Antoine II, 78, since 1922 ruler of pocket-sized Monaco (370 acres), whose chief sources of income are postage stamps and Monte Carlo's gambling casino (the 24,000 Monegasques pay no income taxes); four days after he abdicated in favor of his grandson, 25-year-old Prince Rainier; in Monaco...
...Case of the Cautious Coquette, Erie Stanley Gardner's 61st crime novel, is a good example of the stream-of-action technique, the ingenious but credible situations and the direct, undecorated prose that have made him the best-selling author alive. In 25? Pocket Book editions alone, 28 of his books have sold more than 30 million copies in less than nine years. Fourteen Gardner titles have gone over the million mark; The Case of the Lucky Legs alone has hit the incredible figure, for a detective story, of 2,000,000. In all editions, hard and paper cover...
...ambulance driver why he had crashed into a concrete post: he had fallen asleep at the wheel. In Los Angeles, William V. Mendenhall of Angeles National Forest Service was checking plans for the annual fire-prevention campaign when the pack of matches he was carrying in his hip pocket set his trousers afire. In Baltimore, Kinsey H. Dillon was indicted for evading payment of $4,819 in income taxes for 1945-46, the same years he was employed as a government auditor to check reports of income-tax evasion...