Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl who gets rescued from the fire, and who indirectly caused it, is Susan Hayward. Pretty enough to spark all sorts of explosions, Susan gets this one under way by vowing vengeance on a local oil baron (Lloyd Gough) whom she holds responsible for the death of her father. While trying to beat him at his own game, she succeeds in developing oil wells by the dozen, and presently finds that her lust for vengeance has turned into a lust for money and power. Meanwhile, her emotional life develops a three-way split between her loyalty to a rich Indian...
...Squeaky Burwell, 37, decided to start an airline specializing in all-expense vacation tours. He raised more than $400,000-some of it from the Du Pont family-and, with eight surplus DC-4s and DC-3s, Resort Airlines, Inc. was under way...
Within the year, U.S. drive-in theaters had doubled; more than 1,000 sprawled under the sky in 45 states, and, with at least 100 more on the way, the sky seemed to be the limit. Last week, while indoor exhibitors gloomed over a 20% drop from last year's box-office take, Variety reported a 10% boost in drive-in business...
...held tight to the illusion that a sky-high I.Q. and a sensitive nose for Culture were necessary to appreciate the Old Master's offerings. Readers shivered with delight at his rapid-fire quotations and laborious puns, and reverently slipcovered their autographed first editions. They looked the other way when Reviewer Harry Hansen told them that The Trojan Horse (1937) read "like parody"; even the hullabaloo that thousands of not-so-literary Americans kicked up over Kitty Foyle in 1939 only made them smile wisely and congratulate their hero on his versatility...
...Richard was up to more important things: he had finally made contact with That Man, his other self. That Man (also referred to as Mr. Doppelganger) had been troubling Richard for some time. He was the stranger who often walked just a few feet ahead of him on his way to the railroad station-the man to whom Richard always wanted to speak, but never dared. Later Richard suspected him (correctly) of having delivered the mysterious sealed manuscript to his office. After their first formal meeting on Neighbor Sharpy Cullen's terrace, Richard encountered That Man many times...