Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great "combine" owned in part by the British Government, whose rates are not only lower on intra-than on extra-Imperial traffic, but in the case of Australia are made still lower by Government subsidy of messages to the U.S. and Empire countries. Difference in press rate: Sydney to New York, 2? a word; Chungking to New York, at one company's rate, 22? a word...
Annette Kellerman, shapely shocker of yesteryear, one-piece bathing-suit pioneer: now 55, trouping for the Australian Red Cross. From Sydney she wrote to show business' trade paper Variety: "I've been booked solid for three years on the V. S. Circuit [Voluntary Service-Red Cross theatrical unit]. We don't even get doughnuts ... [I am] writing my own show, words & music...
...mornings, onetime Boxer Sydney Robey Leibbrandt punched his shadow about his cell. In the afternoons, he ranted Nazi cant. At night, he ignored his comfortable prison bed for a wooden bench. Three days of each month, he fasted...
Brought to trial for treason in South Africa (TIME, Dec. 28), Sydney Leibbrandt turned out to be a German agent, who arrived in a U-boat to organize sabotage and rebellion against Field Marshal Smuts's Government. Last week in Pretoria, at the end of the Union's longest treason trial, the judge asked sneer-faced Sydney if he wished to say anything. Up whipped Sydney's arm in a Nazi salute. Out whipped the words, in harsh Afrikaans: "Long live Adolf Hitler, long live National Socialist South Africa. I expected to die if I came back...
...Costs: The results of this headache hullabaloo have been spectacular in terms of sales: less than one year from scratch, Mejoral has recovered (on a yearly basis) some four-fifths of the 25-year-old aspirin market that Sydney Ross and Sterling International lost when the Cafiaspirina arrangement was canceled. But the Mejoral push has also been spectacular in terms of costs: close to $2,000,000 of hard Sterling cash went into Latin American advertising last year, using up perhaps 30% of its Good Neighbor gross. Other costs have skyrocketed too: e.g., 2,000 employes, many of them meticulously...