Word: sold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pages and 47 chapters, but more than half the space is blank. Chapter 47 is titled "Lord Chesterfield's Last Letter to His Son," and consists entirely of this message: "Dear Junior-Get lost-Dad." But as book stores closed last week, 42,500 copies had been sold, and Jack Douglas' My Brother Was an Only Child (Dutton; $2.50) made the bestseller lists for the ninth straight week...
French Line retired the 31-year-old Ile de France last autumn, sold her to a Japanese scrap merchant named Seichi Okada, who for the last few weeks has been collecting $4,000 a day in rent from Andy Stone and MGM. Finally, on location last week in Osaka Bay, the Ile reverberated with strange commands, such as "Open the barndoors on the broads!"* In the first-class staterooms, a collection of extras as mixed as the strays in a Conrad novel-English girls from Kobe, White Russians, Poles, wives of U.S. marines, a French judo expert-had the maritime...
...automen enjoying their first spring buying surge in four years, the new sales figures last week were eye openers. During May, dealers sold 529,800 U.S.-built cars, 34% more than a year earlier and the highest total for any month in two years...
...assembled a memorable team of Oriental ogres to dispose of his victims, lured such connoisseurs of evil as Boris Karloff and Warner (Charlie Chan) Oland to portray him on screen, almost died horribly at times but was so popular and profitable that he managed to survive and thrive: Rohmer sold him to movies, radio and TV. A mystery himself, Rohmer avoided people, tinkered with spiritualism, in later years wearied of Fu. His last book on Fu (Emperor Fu Manchu) will appear posthumously, fulfilling a prophecy that Fu once whispered to Rohmer's inflamed imagination: "It is your belief that...
...director of the company. She has traveled widely (Russia in 1956, India in 1958), paints, is an author of two travel books, an amateur photographer and a pianist. When her husband was head of a citizens' committee to aid St. Paul's Como Park Zoo, she sold the idea of painting the cages in colors that contrasted with the animals' coats. When a local weekly refused to support a hospital fund-raising drive with the enthusiasm she expected, she bought it and became publisher. She came out with strong editorials against Senator Joseph McCarthy, won a campaign...