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Originally scheduled for the less-spacious Sanders Theater, the forum has been moved to the outdoor site to make room for an estimated 7500 persons. Although 3000 tickets have been received to date, the AVC expects the sale next week to double this total at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gate Forecast Of 7500 Shifts Wallace Talk | 9/26/1947 | See Source »

...much of the spending is not being done in such noticeably big pieces. Smaller companies in almost every other industry are making small but widespread changes in the industrial landscape. They are building extensions to existing plants or raising new ones in a vast scramble for spacious positions close to power, labor, raw materials, markets, or cheaper tax rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Boom | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...little envious of the then famous and incredibly fecund playwright, Lope de Vega). But in Quixote, Cervantes knew that he had written a bestseller. He predicted, in jest, a sale of 30,000,000 copies (just about it). Biographer Bell, with other critics, observes that this bland and spacious masterpiece is less simple than it seems. More than a satire on medieval romances, which were the soap operas of Cervantes' age, it leads even the earthy Sancho Panza into a subtly dizzying identification of reality and dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Satirist | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...Chicago Daily News. At first, everything was fine. Marshall Field's Sun was out to wear down Bertie McCormick's monolithic Tribune. Always happy to stick an irritating finger in McCormick's glacial eye, the late Colonel Frank Knox quartered the Sun in his spacious Daily News plant, let it use his presses at night and was nice about the rent. Hardheaded John S. Knight later took over the Daily News, but not its feuds. He played footie with McCormick; and as a landlord saw no reason to charge the Sun less than the traffic would bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Home for the Sun | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Esmerelda, late in life, has developed a penchant for bringing boys and girls together. In her spacious back seat and on her soft front cushions literally hundreds of couples have sat and talked of the world and the meaning of things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Esmerelda, a Car with Spirit, Carries On | 7/25/1947 | See Source »

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