Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Week after week, Rocco had called his wife's office to threaten her. He hung like a shadow around her home neighborhood. One day he poked a gun in her ribs, drove her to a mountain resort where he kept her stripped for three days. He pleaded to let him come back. She refused. One day, a shot ripped through the kitchen window of his wife's home and hit her in the thigh...
...blocked strip of black & white leaves and flowers on a grey background. Judges also liked a busy strip of his, full of little men running like all get-out (see cuts). Bent Karlby also designs houses to paste his wallpaper up in. During the war he redecorated a Danish resort hotel, from chandeliers to ashtrays. When comfort-loving Nazis took it over, Karlby hurried home to print an underground newspaper in his cellar. The Nazis almost caught him, but he escaped to Sweden in a fishing smack. There his wallpaper designs made an immediate...
Credit for selling the U.S. public on skiing in the early '30s belonged to no one man. Averell Harriman, as board chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad, had a hand in it. He persuaded his fellow directors that the U.P., hungry for prestige and passengers, should build a resort at Sun Valley. Hollywooders (including Norma Shearer, Claudette Colbert and Darryl F. Zanuck) made it fashionable. Manhattan Banker Harvey Dow Gibson hired Austria's famed skier, Hannes Schneider, and spent $1,000,000 to build his home town, North Conway, N. H., into one of the East...
...National Advisory Council on Leprosy decided last week that it was high time for a more humane attitude toward lepers. Their recommendations (to Surgeon General Thomas Parran): 1) new diagnostic centers and clinics for treatment in the four states where leprosy is endemic; 2) segregation only as a last resort (in contagious stages); 3) pleasanter surroundings and more freedom for Carville's lepers, including a month's vacation every six months...
...most of the Herald's profits came from its fat German and Italian shipping and resort advertising, and the Paris edition shamelessly toadied to the Nazis and Fascists-while its New York superiors were stoutly antitotalitarian. Newsmen might complain or quit, but its late editor, Laurence Hills, could always find enough reporters on the town to fill the gaps. Finally, in 1939, Hills began to write scathing frontpage, anti-Hitler editorials. Expatriate Americans were heading for home, and the Herald's 35,000 circulation plummeted to less than 10,000. On June 12, 1940, Managing Editor Eric Hawkins...