Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Magazine of the Year, was in trouble. To save its strength, it had lopped off its circulation department (about 30 employees) a fortnight ago. Last week, in a Manhattan Federal Court, the pocket-sized cooperative magazine tried kill-or-cure medicine. Publisher Walter Ross asked permission to reorganize under the National Bankruptcy Act, listing liabilities of $581,425 and assets...
...Pocket-Size Dramatics. Televised plays are often more embarrassing than entertaining. NBC's Kraft Theater and Theatre Guild are the best; the directors, after a few cluttered mishaps, have wisely stopped trying to paint extravaganzas on their Lilliputian canvas. The intimate kind of show they settled for hardly rivals the razzle-dazzle-of Hollywood, but it fits neatly between the living-room sofa and the book case. One recent success: Great Catherine, with Gertrude Lawrence, who back in 1938 appeared in the first televersion of a Broadway play (Susan and God). CBS, screening digests of current Broadway hits, made...
...barred from a life class at the Art Students League in Manhattan because he was still in short pants. He went to work on the old New York Herald and the Evening Post as an illustrator and left, at 22, to sail for Europe with only $150 in his pocket. He studied art and sipped vermouth on an empty stomach in Paris, then came back home to the Eagle...
...that his ballad has had a hearing, Gerschefski is carrying another TIME clipping around in his pocket. It is a story called Man Overboard (TIME, March 1) and is concerned with the ship's carpenter who fell off the Grace Liner Santa Clara one bright day in the Caribbean and was miraculously recovered by his ship, which had discovered his absence and put about for him. Gerschefski doesn't know whether it will make a ballad like Half Moon Mountain, but he is strongly inclined...
...those who board in, the Milton school day starts at 7 a.m., when "yellers" run down the halls acting as human alarm clocks. Smoking is forbidden except for first-classmen (seniors), parents are advised to keep weekly pocket allowances to 75?, and there is a compulsory Saturday sewing-hour for Milton girls. Unlike many New England prep schools, Milton has no required religion courses. But Headmaster Arthur Bliss Perry, 49, son of Harvard's famed scholar Bliss Perry, and a Milton teacher since 1921, tries to impress on his well-bred boys & girls "the obligation of the unenforceable...