Word: sold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your story on Cartoonist Helen Hokinson [TiME, Nov. 14] brought vividly to mind our meeting in Connecticut several summers ago. My husband and I were vacationing in the East, and on the strength of having sold her four cartoon suggestions (one: "Now, please bear in mind that I am not Ingrid Bergman"-see cut), we asked her to meet us for cocktails . . . We found her to be shy, modest, thoroughly affable, and reminiscent of her women . . . When we asked her what she'd like to drink, she said: "A glass of iced tea. Hard liquor makes...
Scott journeyed to native encampments on the wild thornbush plains. He bumped over rough motor tracks, got lost in deserts, sat with chiefs and councillors and took down their words. The tribesmen deputized him to speak for them to the outside world, sold some of their cattle to pay for his trips to sessions...
...Taxeringskalender was proving a boon to the boastful, a murrain to the miserly and a surefire smash in the bookstalls. The book-a privately published almanac which meticulously lists the annual earnings of every Swede, except royalty, who makes more than 15,000 kronor (about $3,000)-sold 14,000 copies during the first few days after publication...
Cadmus hopes against hope that the series will be sold as a group to decorate a church (price: $20,000). "I don't believe," he says wistfully, "that any of my paintings would encourage anyone to sin." As nightmare personifications of evil, the Sins were frightening enough; as pictures, they were merely unpleasant. It looked as if in this case Cadmus had sold his art for a mess of message...
...automobile had done an additional 20,000 miles when it was sold to Putnam in 1946. Early this year Putnam sold it to Post. The speedometer now reads over 100,000 miles, but Post feels that the car is still good for another ten years...