Word: sanctums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editors finally had their own "castle" a Sanctum on the second floor that could serve as a retreat from the hustling news room, as a hanquet hall for full board dinners, or as a dance floor with star litterace adjacent. Ample space was allowed in the newsroom for strewing copy paper and typewriters wherever needed, while the managing editor and editorializers were provided with isolated nooks for better concentration on their individual problems...
...Lever Brothers (soap, tea, toothpaste, etc.), $7,274,503 for Bob Hope, Inner Sanctum, Lux Radio Theater, A Woman's Life...
...Rice informed me. "The other half goes to my publisher, who, like all first-edition publishers today, takes 50% of all authors' reprint royalties. And, of course, I pay 10% to my agent, thereby netting 40% for myself." Miss Lee Wright, editor of Simon & Schuster's Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Miss Rice's first-edition publishers, confirmed this emphatically over the telephone tonight. "Craig has just the same sort of contract as any other writer," said Miss Wright. "We take 50% of her reprint royalties...
...strictly unofficial news of the meeting was that the committee would recommend and the leagues elect a new commissioner before the 1945 season opens in mid-April. The inner-sanctum dope was that National League President Ford Frick, onetime Colorado College assistant professor of English and longtime sports writer, had the inside track...
Talk of the Sanctum. Of the wonderful evening two years ago, to the day, when you first climbed the stairs. Vag liked that idea. The others hadn't been so impressed, but he thought the place looked like a little piece of all that he had expected Harvard to be. Now the need for a new paint job was even greater, but Vag still thought of the Sanctum that way. It was home to him, far more than D-21 had ever been. He thought of the Ivy Leaguer's ode to upstairs and he was still. That should...