Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic bolters to Willkie last week included: Samuel Levy, twice president of Manhattan Borough ; George L. Berry, former U. S. Senator and president of the International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union; Orville H. Bullitt, brother of Ambassador William...
...terrorists who serve either the Japanese or their Chinese puppet, Wang Ching-wei, have bombed the Post plant five times, slaughtered guards, wounded pressmen, and last month murdered Samuel H. Chang, director of the Post and its Chinese edition...
...theatrical) Agency, originally had a hard time getting on the air because sponsors considered it too bright for day time audiences. Now it moves along so briskly that sponsors are thinking of letting the general public gape while the Luncheons are in progress. Only outsiders permitted to join the pressmen and sponsors' pals who now attend the Luncheons are those who write in on very smart stationery. On no such stock was one of the letters Miss Chase received from a Midwest housewife, who wrote: "You and your mother must both reek of cigarette smoke. Such carryings...
...Chinese Theatre. Occasion: publicity gag for his forthcoming self-burlesque. The Great Profile. For years big-time filmfolk have documented Grauman's forecourt with their hand and footprints. It remained for Barrymore to lend his famous profile to the wet concrete (by way of plaster cast), oblige pressmen by pretending to put his face in it. Heckled by unsatisfied photographers, he dipped his classic nose, a timid cheek, more of the profile when Sid Grauman, still unsatisfied, sneaked up from behind and bore down (see cut). Bedaubed & bewildered, Barrymore cursed, was still digging concrete from his ear when...
Feeling his oats last week, Minister Marquet also had advice for America. "Tell America her time is coming unless she wakes up," he advised foreign pressmen. "In 1932 when I was there, a young man with average intelligence, average brawn and average will to work could have hoped and did hope to amass enough to live comfortably. When I returned in 1939 I was astonished to find American youth no longer wished to work . . . women filling the jobs of men in industry and commerce, wearing too much make-up and refusing to bear children. I warn you . . . it is time...