Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lean and waggish Meyer Berger wondered if the fate of the party might not be settled in "Coke-filled rooms." Tom Dewey's campaign workers wooed them wildly with gifts. They handed out bottles of deodorant, emery boards, silver polish, Life Savers, chocolate, chewing gum, cigarette holders, pocket combs-and brown paper sacks to carry all the boodle...
...beautiful and talented Mary Kay Stearns, who was recently crowned "Queen of Television?" . . . Mary Kay and her husband . . . have a pocket-size dramatis comedy . . . about newlyweds ... In response to their very first telecast they received over 8,000 letters...
...alert nation, militarily and industrially prepared against a national emergency, has an excellent chance of avoiding such an emergency." With these words of dubious comfort, the Munitions Board last week issued a booklet entitled Military Procurement, a comprehensive pocket guide to war planning by U.S. industry...
...came to New York because he had no relatives there. "I wanted to commit sins if I felt like it," he says. He was 20, a hefty, blue-eyed, black-haired youth with $25 in his pocket. He looked up with satisfaction at the "buildings falling all over themselves," but was afraid to get into the subway. Somebody had told him that the trains stopped for only one minute, and he was afraid they would run off and leave him in some hole in the ground...
Rising costs had another pocket-sized monthly breathing hard. Starting with the July issue, Reader's Scope (circ. around 300,000), published by leftish Leverett Gleason, will come out every other month...