Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howie Houston gets his first real test today against Reddy Finney. Finney decisioned the Navy heavyweight and the 300-pound Penn heavyweight, but Houston should win in an interesting match. It's Howie's last home appearance and it's worth the price of admission just to watch...
...interested to find what had improved with a second showing and what waned. Miss Lillie, of course, improved. She has supplemented almost all of her routines with additional business, such as the swinging pearls in the Pittsburgh choral song (to watch her twirl them is worth the price of admission alone), and the Teutonic accents in the satire on the Hollywood-Chopin romances...
...PRICE IS RIGHT (316 pp.)-Jerome Weidman-Harcourf, Brace...
...Wholesale, and a sequel, Weidman barbecued some of the pin-striped denizens of Manhattan's garment district. In his latest (and sixth) novel, the tiger wears tweeds and its hunting grounds are the knotty-pine fastnesses of a Madison Avenue newspaper syndicate; but when the price is right, the beast still shows its breed...
Parallel with the satire in The Price Is Right, Weidman tries something bigger; he appears to offer Henry Cade as a sort of modern Macbeth, a surrogate for all men gnawed by too much ambition. But Weidman's Macbeth remains strictly from Madison Avenue, and one side of the street at that...