Word: secondhand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poorhouse Boy also was written with a purpose-to help the paupers -and its early chapters bear a secondhand resemblance to Oliver Twist...
Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco almost ran down her newest romance (according to the gossip columnists) when Maestro Leopold Stokowski stepped off a train at Truckee, Calif, into a Sierra Nevada snowstorm to help wait out her Reno divorce (due April 20). Meeting him in a secondhand Cadillac which she had just learned to drive, Gloria released the clutch as he crossed in front of the car. Only a cadenza-like leap saved him. Unruffled, the heiress drove him to her Lake Tahoe cabin while Manhattan friends & relatives dispatched frantic wires warning her not to marry the sixtyish conductor. Working...
...Yale, where 1,900 V12 students are stationed, the show was a must for all trainees. To the rest of the U.S., it promised as close a secondhand view of war as most civilians are likely...
Gypsy has traveled the theatrical road since 1917, two months after she was born in Milwaukee. Her Russian musician father and Egyptian mother-gypsies both -took her to China, India and Europe (where on cold nights Gypsy slept with the bear cubs). At 14 she was playing a secondhand accordion in a Chicago nightspot. She has played in Paris, in Sweden (before King Gustaf), in Egypt (before Farouk), in Washington (for President Roosevelt...
...Holy Moley!" Publishing wisdom has come slowly and somewhat secondhand to the Four Fawcetts, who have probably bred and killed more magazines than any two other U.S. publishers. Only around the office, never to the public, do they call themselves the "greatest seconds in the business." But True Confessions began three years after Macfadden's phenomenal True Story ; Modern Mechanics, started in 1928, changed its name to Mechanic Illustrated because Popular Mechanics objected. When Ballyhoo created a big, brief stir in 1931, the Fawcetts came up with Hooey. When LIFE scored, the Fawcetts brought out a picture magazine called...