Word: prints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pint-sized Showman Billy Rose is so tickled to see his stuff in print that he pays $1,500 a week to run it as an ad in Manhattan's dailies (TIME, June 24). Only incidentally does he plug his "bespangled basement" nightclub. By last week, the fan mail and the newspaper syndicate offers he had received had not weaned Rose from his amateur standing. But they did show him that he might give his copy away instead of paying space rates...
Harry Lacey, a Boston interior the Rubens' painting, "Descent from the Rubens' painting, "Descent from the Cross," to the Fogg Art Museum, it was reported early today. Lacey allegedly had no knowledge of the value of the print, and recovered it from a pile of debris in the basement of the Boston Art Club...
...nation's 9,000 country editors, virtually all of whom do business with him, realize the extent of his infiltration into the rural press. W.N.U.'s 29 plants supply "ready-print" pages (complete with Lydia Pinkham ads) to 2,500 papers, which buy their stock with W.N.U. canned features on one side, put their local news on the blank side. Hundreds go in debt to W.N.U. whenever they buy equipment-another way of holding them...
...blast on the kids who pester him for his autograph. I don't get it. When I first met him he was a Coney Island stilt-walker and his square monicker was Archie Leach. . . . When he pushes past those spangle-starved kids and boots them around in print, he's putting a match to his own meal ticket...
...reckless British reviewer once observed in print that the Sitwells were "literary curiosities . . . whose energy and self-assurance pushed them into a position which their merits could not have won. . . . Oblivion has claimed them and they are remembered with kindly, if slightly cynical, smiles." The Sitwells promptly sued for libel, were awarded damages of ?350 each (TIME, March...