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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well in 1947. The estimated net of $100,000,000 was down from the alltime peak of 1946, but it was still far better than in any peacetime year. Some companies that had been on thin ice a few years ago were now on solid ground. Last week, Cartoonist Walt Disney reported that on his gross of $6,619,912 he had netted $307,075, his best ever. (He had not even taken into consideration $450,000 in blocked foreign earnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paradise Lost? | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...someone comes to us for a book on collecting tulips," said Morrill, "we want to have it for him." Among the rare books the store hopes to sell will be a first issue of a first edition of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" and countless Americana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutin's Bookshop Gets Face-Lifting For New Owners | 1/16/1948 | See Source »

Members of last year's Varsity, which turned in a seven and five won and lost record and finished in a tie with Princeton and Columbia in the league standings, present at last night's meeting included outfielders Lennie Lunden, Bucky Harrison, John Coffey, and Walt Coulson; infielders Web Durant and Captain John Coppinger; and pitchers Ira Godin, Ralph Hymans, and Barry Turner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Samborski Plans to Merge Jayvee, Varsity in 30-Man Diamond Brigade | 1/13/1948 | See Source »

Police identified the woman as Bertha Walt, a pretty young Zurich office worker. The night before she had carried some bread away from the dinner table, and apparently went to the zoo to feed Chang. There was a keeper's door in the wall at the back of the elephant pit through which she could have entered. To a friend she had said: "I often find animals kinder than people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: An Elephant with Imagination | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...with a big female star. Greer's audience, he said, will be a good thing for you. It was a very good maneuver. The movie? I didn't like it." Of Spellbound: "I was lousy." Of The Yearling: "I would have liked the picture better with its Walt Disney aspects pushed into the background. It was much too lushly done, and we have to take part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Leading Man | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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