Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near Mont Tremblant's slopes and mile-long chair lift is the plushy Manoir Pinoteau, which features French cooking. A short run away is a more typical Laurentian resort: Gray Rocks Inn, a sprawling, homey frame house where the food is substantial, the rates low ($5 to $7 a day, including meals), and good slopes and trails start at the back door. There, as in most of the lodges, expert and duffer alike turn out for ski-school lessons at rates which average $2 for a half-day. There are scores of others, from the stucco Chalet Cochand...
Hollywood wanted them for a movie short. Pro football, recognizing them as the greatest two-star combination in college football history, put in high bids. The offers piled up. Last week, West Point's touchdown twins, Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard (along with End Barney Poole), asked the War Department for fall furloughs to take advantage of their $100,000-a-season offers...
...still roundly reviled and praised. Some art critics have ranked Gaston Lachaise with such recent greats as Rodin and Maillol, and just before Lachaise died, Manhattan's high-powered, streamlined Museum of Modern Art honored him with the sort of retrospective show it reserves for its own short list of probable immortals...
...following usages are a must for anyone handling the Elizabeth Short case. . . . What are the police? Baffled, hard-pressed, grim-faced, tightlipped. What is the victim? Beautiful, dark-haired, pretty. . . . What sort of crime is it? Fiendish. How was the body mutilated? Horribly. . . . What are members of the victim's family? Grief-stricken. When they are not baffled, hard-pressed, grim-faced or tightlipped, what are the police? Desperate. What is the public at large? Shocked. What does the killer face? The greatest man hunt in Los Angeles history...
...managing editor of Collier's and Liberty) realistically guessed where part of the trouble lay: his name-in-lights stable "have to earn livings, and they've got to sell to other markets too." To his stockholder-contributors went an urgent "special request": "We need masterfully written short stories, and articles, that will make the nation stop to read. You can insure your investment by routing '47-ward the two finest pieces you produce in the next twelve months...