Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulls all of these acts together is high-strung Max Liebman, 43, producer, director and owner of the precious package. For 16 years, Liebman has been in & out of the Poconos, Broadway and Hollywood (he helped tailor a number of the routines that made Danny Kaye famous). He thinks that turning out a highly professional show every week for TV is a "greater strain" than doing it for the stage. He was showing no particular strain last week over the news that he had a contented sponsor...
Harry Truman's "bold new program" seemed tailor-made for Latin America. All 20 Latin American republics are "underdeveloped." They have been crying for economic help ever since war's end, when the flow of U.S. dollars southward slowed to a trickle. Would the "bold new program" solve their problem...
...ready-witted, poker-playing Pianist Solomon (full name: Solomon Cutner) is ready to display his wares more widely than he ever had before. A tailor's son, he was born in London "within sound if not sight of Bow bells-I'm a cockney all right." At eight, when he made his debut in Queen's Hall, his last name was dropped from the billing, and he never picked it up again. He played on provincial concert tours until he was 14-"until some people got interested in me and let me retire and study piano...
Chipp, "The Gentleman's Tailor," at 73 1/2 Mt. Auburn st., may be evicted Tuesday in favor of a higher paying prospective tenant according to Jonas Arnold, the manager. He will take the case to court, and, in the event of a loss, will move his haberdashery to his other Cambridge store, Tweeds Ltd. at 33 Brattle...
...Tailor's Dummies grew directly from such a sketch. It looked innocent enough until he began explaining it: "The children realized very much that these were bodies. The sight reminded me of a dummy my aunt had when I was a child, and that I always used to hit it, whirl it around. I wondered for a long time what I should put on the wall in the background. First I was going to make it a bandage ad, but then one day I saw it had to be the woman you see there, and I knew at once...