Word: took
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...murderer, serving a life term at hard labor, who first had the idea for the Christmas party three months ago, and it took him only a day or two to persuade his European and African prison mates to go along. Then he convinced the warden. Using an empty cell as an office, the prisoners wrote to stores and charities in town explaining that they wanted to invite as many of Salisbury's European orphans and needy children as possible: ''We would like to be their parents for one day." Soon, the gifts began to arrive...
...gesture of contempt," roared Lord Beaverbrook's Express. Just as angrily, Nasser's newspaper Al Gumhuria retorted: "Suppose we make not one but a thousand museums to commemorate the horrible attack on us-what business is that of London's?" Stiffening his upper lip, Selwyn Lloyd took the view that Nasser could not have known of the insult in advance...
...just what shots to get (cholera, typhus, yellow fever, smallpox, typhoid and tetanus), how much luggage was allowed (66 lbs. in one piece), what to pack (three or four bars of soap, enough clean underwear to last until New Delhi, black tie for state occasions en route). Hagerty, who took a dry-run tour of the route in November, even thoughtfully published information on the availability of American cigarettes along the way ($5 a carton in Karachi, none to be had in New Delhi) and-a matter of vital importance to deadline-conscious newsmen-the time differential between New York...
With that realization, he took the idea of the celebrity register to Earl Blackwell, proprietor of Celebrity Service, a New York-Hollywood enterprise that keeps charts on the famous. Over four years, the two put together 2,240 biographies...
This ingenious approach was first tried five years ago in New York by a onetime publicity man named Herbert Muschel. With less than $10,000 in capital, Muschel launched PR News Association in Manhattan, a publicity wholesaler that took copy from commerce and industry and moved it-for an annual membership fee of $25, plus a daily charge of $15 for transmissions-over printers installed free in newspaper offices, broadcasting stations and other communications outlets that permitted the installation. Today Muschel has more than 700 paying customers-among them General Foods Corp., Kaiser Industries Corp. and the American Heart Association...