Word: took
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Grosset's President John O'Connor took on the job of running Wonder Books himself. O'Connor has always been a man with a sharp eye for selling. As vice president of Chicago's Quarrie Corp., he helped sell a million copies of the Book of Knowledge. At Grosset, it was he who started Bantam Books. O'Connor thinks that the potential market for Wonder Books (which have hard, washable-plastic covers) is 100 million copies. To cash in on it, he expects to increase the list of 16 titles (including Mother Goose, Peter Rabbit...
...Harrodian tradition began in May 1849, when Tea Merchant Henry Charles Harrod opened a three-room grocery in Knightsbridge. His son, Charles Digby Harrod, proved to be something of a taskmaster when he took over in 1861. He installed a removable staircase at his employees' entrance, and took it away at 8 a.m. Store help who showed up later than that could not get in. He also abolished "cook's perks," the traditional perquisite for servants who bought their masters' provisions at the store. Eventually, he sold out to a group which turned Harrods into a public...
...Rose & Pink Stucco. Four months ago, Rossellini arrived in Hollywood and called on the Lindstroms. Husband Peter, who took a liking to the visitor, urged Ingrid to accept Rossellini's invitation to make a picture on Stromboli. Roberto, a balding, middle-aged (43) man with an estranged wife and a five-year-old son, joyfully hurried home. In preparation for the arrival of his famous star, it was reported, he took a course of reducing baths...
...have met my husband here and have discussed and clarified our situation . . ." No one thought that the statement clarified anything, but she and Rossellini went back to l'isola nera to finish their picture. Dr. Lindstrom, back in Rome, made a statement of his own just before he took a plane for the U.S. "There will be no divorce . . ." He added wearily: "Italy is a beautiful country, but it is too full of fantasies...
Following the pattern set in all meets this spring, Carl Olsen's half and mile runners swept their events, while sprinter Dick Weiskopf won both the 100 and 220 yard dashes. The '52s also took first and second in the quarter and the broad jump, and a first in the hammer...