Word: supplementation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made fascinating material for the Sunday-supplement writers. Evalyn Walsh McLean was dogged by disaster. She hired detectives to guard her first child, Vinson; she provided a scrubbed, perfumed Negro boy to "keep him from getting spoiled by wealth." But he was killed by an automobile when he was nine. Her marriage ended tragically. Hard-drinking Ned McLean's mind gave way-in a moment of wild humor he sent her a Latvian divorce summons done up in a Christmas box decorated with tiny reindeer and holly. He was committed to an insane asylum a little later, finally died...
...supplement to its nightly program of baseball scores, the Network also announced last night that it would supply the results of the day's games to anyone who telephoned the studies...
...pagos were the home of a lady known as Baroness Eloise, whose favorite costume was a pair of silk panties and a pearl-handled pistol. In 1934 she vanished with the latest of her seedy lovers and has not been sighted since-much to the chagrin of Sunday-supplement editors. Since her day the archipelago has been popularly regarded, at least by tabloid readers, as a lovers' Eden, with hibiscus and orchids everywhere and acquiescent beauty under every bush. But U.S. Army & Navy men who were stationed during the war on dry, red-dusty Seymour Island know better...
...selected will be official staff members, leading informal discussion groups to supplement the conference lectures. They will be quartered in the Castle Leopoldskron during the six week Seminar that begins on July...
This week FORTUNE, in its April issue, reprinted the report as a supplement. FORTUNE found it "an important, balanced, meaty, difficult document," whose obscurities and overcondensations were, considering the source, "inexcusable...