Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, Georgi Dimitrov might really be ill. He has had heart trouble and skin ailments for years. And he went on leave just as the "season" opened in the Communist elite health resorts along Russia's Black Sea coast...
...Restraint. To encourage good work by attendants, the National Mental Health Foundation last year began naming a "Psychiatric Aide of the Year." This week the 1948 award ($500 and a citation) went to Milwaukee's Brand. Chief reason why he was picked by a board of judges that included Author Mary Jane Ward (The Snake Pit): he has stopped using "restraint" (hospital lingo for straitjackets, "camisoles," belts, wristcuffs, etc.). In his ward, Brand has been trying kindness and reasonableness instead...
...Editor Walter Ross and Art Director Tony Palazzo. (Said Palazzo: "It was only the second time I spoke to the guy. The first time was when we were introduced.") Fiction Editor Kenneth Littauer hadn't waited to see what would happen; when he heard Ruppel was coming, he went...
...their mailboxes one day last week, 100,000 businessmen, labor leaders, governors, novelists and professors found free samples of The Reporter, a new, slick-paper fortnightly magazine of "facts and ideas." Heralded by newspaper ads, another 50,000 copies went on sale (at 25?) on newsstands across the U.S. With no other preliminary promotion, The Reporter hoped eventually to pick up 50,000 readers who would be attracted by its basic editorial proposition: "America as a nation [is] inseparably tied to the freedom and well-being of other nations...
...year-old Odorizzi, this was the last straw. Last week he quit and went off to his Wisconsin mink farm. A day later, Vice President Arthur Romer, after 32 years at Ward's, also quit. Then Avery got the resignation of Vice President Albert O. Steffey, retail store boss who had been with Ward's for 21 years. Steffey went home and opened up the bottle of 1811 brandy he had been saving for the occasion. With their departure, Sewell Avery snapped: good riddance; all three had been part of the "very real conspiracy...