Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Living, a child of Mademoiselle, is only four issues old. But it is a newsstand sellout at 220,000 copies, and as a "magazine for smart young homemakers," was treading on Pic's toes. The publishers will step up the print order and turn Living into a bimonthly in February. quote to read: "He's trying to criminally assault me! Help...
...Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (TIME, June 28) opened in Boston last week. It was a box-office sellout. But the theater was picketed-by an organization called the Sons of Liberty (an insurgent Jewish group renounced by both U.S. and British Zionists) and a delegation from the Irish Republican Prisoners' Release Association, who came up from New York...
Only one man was ever able to dominate Seattle's unruly orchestra since Karl Krueger left it in 1932. Crusty, goat-bearded Sir Thomas Beecham raged at Seattle as an "esthetic dustbin," but for two years during the war, he had musicians and sellout audiences on the edges of their seats (he sometimes stopped the orchestra in the middle of a movement to lecture the audience on its manners). Such other conductors as Basil Cameron and Nikolai Sokoloff had left Seattle shaking their heads and wringing their hands. Halfempty houses, rickety budgets, constant wrangling of the socialite directors...
...What is the need for a council of this kind?" asked Anthony Eden. "How can any industrial country give us instructions on how to conduct our business?" Communist Willie Gallacher backed Eden, shouting "A sellout!" Cripps's own Socialist supporters asked if the nationalization of iron and steel would be delayed if U.S. private enterprise was called in as adviser. The fears and frustrations of a dogged, weary nation came tumbling out. Was this council an economic instrument whereby America could keep a hold on Britain through EGA? Would it cut British exports? Would it give Americans a competitive...