Word: ur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bought the showplace estate of John (Driv-Ur-Self) Hertz in the rolling green hills of Illinois' Fox River Valley. He turned it into a showplace for farmers, now spends most of his time there and on his other farms nearby. No money-losing gentleman farmer, he makes everything pay its own way. He once tried sheep raising. Totting up the books one night, he discovered that he was losing money at it; next day he ordered the sheep sold...
Some 3,000 midshipmen will march from their grey stone barracks at Annapolis next week to hear handsome, ur bane Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch open the ceremonies celebrating the U.S. Naval Academy's 100th year. There will be light moments, a "hop" in Dahlgren Hall. But essentially it will be an occasion for prayer ful thought both in the Chapel and the Administration Building next door...
Most of the bright, personable U.S. propagandists in London were on OWI's payroll. CBS's restless William Paley, 43, his dog tag made by Cartier, bombarded Europe by radio. Litteratéur Lewis Galan-tiere plotted U.S. propaganda for France. Ace Hollywood Scenarist Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town), intermittently in & out of London, Washington and Sicily since 1941, managed the OWI film division. Deep in publications & pamphlets: the Viking Press's wealthy president, Harold Guinz-burg, and wealthy George Backer (who was reported to be spending his idle hours translating...
When Reader's Digest editors several months ago decided to publish at Stockholm a Swedish language edition* called Det Besta ur Reader's Digest (TIME, Feb. 1) they figured they would be lucky to sell 20,000 copies of the first issue. Optimistically, they decided to run off 75,000 copies anyway, just in case...
...third may be even bigger: there is plenty of paper in Sweden and Det Besta ur Reader's Digest's ultimate circulation will be limited only by its popularity...