Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With three of this season's football games pointing toward sellouts and with 2600 annual tickets sold, prospects look bright for a successful gridiron season from the ticket seller's point of view. The H.A.A. announced yesterday that the Dartmouth game at Hanover, and the Holy Cross and Yale games at Soldiers Feld are certain to be successes at the gate...
...McKenney was born with revolt in her veins. Said she: "My mother, whose maiden name was Flynn, was an Irish nationalist. ... In my Sunday school . . . my sister Eileen and I were evicted for having pernicious views." Along the rocky road to fame, as the writer of a zany best-seller and slick Hollywood scenarios, Ruth McKenney paused to join the Communist Party. Her corpuscles promptly began to tingle again. A 1940 sample: "The Second Imperialist War ... is a fight among thieves, a bloody quarrel among the vultures...
PHOTOGRAPH CAPTIONED SELLER COHN IN TIME, AUG. 26, IS WALTER C. BERGER, PRESIDENT AMERICAN FEED MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION. MORE DISTURBING THAN MERE MISTAKEN IDENTITY IS POSSIBLE CONFUSION OF MR. BERGER, WHO FOUGHT SUCCESSFULLY TO HAVE CONTROLS REMOVED FROM FEED GRAINS, WITH PACKER COHN, WHO ASKED FOR CONTINUED CONTROLS ON MEAT...
Frederic (The Hucksters) Wakeman, caught with his manse down in the housing shortage, gave up house-hunting in the U.S. and moved to Bermuda. Wakeman, who wrote his best-seller in a month, had three new novels idling around in his head. "I plan to write one of them in October," said...
Died. Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis, sixtyish, onetime physical-culturist who dreamed of writing a big-seller and did it by chronicling in Trader Horn the fabulous and maybe apocryphal ivory-trading, gorilla-hunting adventures of chance-visitor Alfred Aloysius Smith; of a heart ailment; in Port Alfred, Cape Province, South Africa...