Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sales tax comes off silver plate and watches with Braille dials (of which 300 were sold in Canada last year...
...Seattle, a Silver Buffalo-highest award in U.S. Scouting-was presented to Songwriter Irving Berlin at the annual banquet of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The banqueters were entertained by a group of high-school singers, who for half an hour sang popular songs, all of them by Songwriter Jerome Kern. At a Manhattan Scout-o-Rama, the Cubs honored Margaret Truman with their "Grand Howl." Replied Margaret...
Tunesmith Jimmy McHugh was celebrating his silver anniversary as a Tin Pan Alley success-and all of Tin Pan Alley seemed to be joining in the celebration. Disc jockeys, bandleaders and crooners were steadily plugging the tunes the nation once knew by heart: I'm in the Mood for Love, South American Way, On the Sunny Side of the Street. But, as usual, no one was plugging them harder than rolypoly Jimmy McHugh himself...
Invasion. Last month Foges secured a beachhead in the U.S. He reorganized Chanticleer Press, his Manhattan office, as a full-fledged publishing house. Next fall Chanticleer will invade the U.S. market with children's books, nature books, a series on American furniture, silver...
...statuette, known as a "silver lady," looked very much like a female Hollywood Oscar. The radiant young lady who clasped it looked, in her gown of turquoise slipper satin and black lace, like a composite photograph of Merle Oberon and Joan Bennett. For the third successive year, Margaret Lockwood last week shakily thanked British moviegoers for electing her Britain's most popular cinemactress. (John Mills, star of Great Expectations, was voted most popular cinemactor; Anna Neagle's The Courtneys of Curzon Street, the most popular film...