Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressagent's dream, and it had been largely dreamed up by pressagents. For her busty boost to the movie Black Magic, United Artists was paying Shirley May ?1,000 ($4,000), which she could not take out of Britain. Scripps-Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association had anted up some $2,500 in dollars for the exclusive rights to Shirley May's byline and to feature picture coverage. Other wire services, newspapers and magazines had assigned 80 reporters and photographers to cover Shirley...
Head Up, Chin Up. Last week, when Shirley May finally took the plunge, she had missed the good weather. She also missed most of the newsmen. On their way over from England, they were far out in mid-Channel at take-off time aboard a picturesque but snail-slow two-masted schooner, christened the Black Magic by Shirley May's pressagent Ted Worner (and later rechristened the Black Maria by disgusted newsmen). The Associated Press had wisely hired its own steamer, the Red Commodore (complete with a restaurant and bar), as well as a speedboat and plane...
...thus insulting Mom and Home Cooking, Columnist Coates last week was paying a heavy price. More than 260 readers had flooded the Mirror with letters challenging Coates to take potluck at their homes, and vowing to make him eat humble pie. A man with a cast-iron stomach and an eye for a circulation chart, Coates accepted most of the 260 invitations and offered prizes for the tastiest meals...
London gallerygoers last week had only to look at 27 of Wilson's latest drawings to see that he was not a complicated intellectual howitzer but something considerably easier to take: a self-taught artist who had a fresh way of seeing things and a gift for getting them down on paper. Scottie's world was a cheerful place where everything fell into intricate designs of delicately colored ink. Strange and luxuriant plants spread across his drawings with the spontaneous elaboration of a Persian carpet; forms, half-vegetable, half-animal, grew out of each other like coral...
This month state-fair boards across the U.S. are handing out prize money to brush-and-chisel wielders as well as to cattle breeders and mincemeat experts. In most states painting and sculpture are displayed with the poultry, corn and hogs that sunburned fair visitors take...