Word: purrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daughter of a Swedish Army major, who retired to become a Stockholm publisher, auburn-haired, 25-year-old Viveca Lindfors is tallish and square-shouldered, with Tallulah Bankhead's big, mobile features and Garbo's own throaty purr. An ambitious student who used to steal scenes ("Oh, that is bad thing to do!") when her director wasn't looking, versatile Viveca (rhymes with "terrific, ah!") has been for five years one of Sweden's top stage & screen stars, playing nearly everything from Shakespeare to Maxwell Anderson...
Never pleased himself with the way things were run while he was stockboy, salesman and export man, the new president set out to please everybody he could. Result: stockholders now purr happily over dividends increased 150% over 1932's, management turns sedate somersaults at sales figures, and junior board members chomp joyfully on a special slice of the profits (three weeks' pay in 1945). The loudest cheers naturally come from employes: their work-week is stable, well paid, shorter. Union organizers have long since decided that the McCormick lily neither wants nor needs their gilding...
...American Broadcasting Co. It had wanted to go a little further and call itself ABC -but two ABCs were there first (Arizona Broadcasting Co., Michigan's Associated Broadcasting Corp.) If the public, however, discovers and insists on using American's obvious nickname, the network will purr contentedly and make no objection...
...work of the Radio Section has been acknowledged by a torrent of military fan mail. Comedian Bob Hope closed one Command Performance broadcast with the remark that if the boys wanted Songstress Ginny Simms to purr another number, "just tear off the top of a Zero and send it in." The boys sent a big hunk of wing with the Rising...
...Cars purr past four wickets (admission: adults, 40?; children, 10?), proceed to their places on a series of curved ridges...