Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grape-Juice Navy." Since its outset, Welch's has flourished mightily at the expense of winebibbers. Though Thomas Welch at first was willing to write off grape juice as a Christian endeavor, demand from churches and teetotalers soon forced the company into bigger quarters at Westfield, N.Y., the self-anointed "grape-juice capital of the world." Founder Welch's son, square-jawed "Dr. Charles," ran the company "as much as a temperance agency as a profit-making concern," capitalized on anti-liquor sentiment with the slogan: "Get the Welch habit-it's one that...
Flying Saucer was dreamed up by a pair of young men who are trying to crash the music business: Dick Goodman, 22, who quit N.Y.U. to write songs, and Bill Buchanan, 24, a song publisher. The idea looked so good to them that they started the Luniverse label to make the record...
...British troops held them fast in their rain-filled holes. When relief troops of the British 2nd Division finally arrived, Colonel Laverty marched out with a ragged half of his battalion. Arthur Campbell, who was among the relieving troops, saw.the survivors' pride and misery, and resolved to write their story. Campbell (who won a Military Cross later for gallantry) has written one of the great stories of World War II, an account of unmatched hardship and bravery, ranking with Guadalcanal, Tarawa. Iwo Jima and Okinawa. At Kohima the British showed that, even outmatched 30 to 1, they could hold...
...Whetsel on trumpet, Otto Hardwick on bass and alto, Sonny Greer on drums and Elmer Snowden on banjo-but the real break came in 1927. "You know, I'm lucky," says Duke. "I'm lucky because I like pretty music-some people don't-and can write it down. And I was lucky when we auditioned for the Cotton Club job. Six other bands auditioned, and they were all on time. We were late, but the big boss was late too, and he heard us and he never heard the others." Duke enlarged his band to eleven...
...jungle, pursued by the Nazis and their venomous wolf pack. The villains should have known better. Widmark kills the first Nazi with a homemade crossbow, the second with a lucky bullet, and the third by running him down in his own airplane. Jane has her story. Widmark can write again. They're in love. All that is needed is someone to wake the audience...