Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LEBRUN'S GREEN PEAS WON $64,000 FOR CAPTAIN RICHARD. British newspapers lovingly frontpaged the event. The U.S. Hearst chain extracted eight articles from McCutchen on his life and times (BE "CAPTAIN COOK'S" GUEST, shouted the headlines). State fairs beseeched his appearance. Publishers begged him to write cookbooks. In a New York delicatessen, the proprietor refused to let him leave without a 3-ft. gift roll of salami. But from Marine Corps Commandant Lemuel Shepherd Jr. came the most important response of all: Captain Richard S. McCutchen, USMC, was ordered to Washington to review the sunset parade...
Sergei Prokofiev loved to write operas, but the world did not seem to care for them. His first mature one, Magdalene, was never produced; his second, The Gambler, had one performance in Brussels and then disappeared; the failure of his third, The Love for Three Oranges, in the U.S. in 1921-22 so disappointed
TITANIUM, once boomed as a wonder metal, is going begging. Demand is so low (8,000 tons yearly, v. industry capacity of 22,500 tons) that the Office of Defense Mobilization has curbed expansion of production by withholding aid, e.g., fast tax write-offs, for titanium plants. As a result, Du Pont will change plans for making titanium in Tennessee...
Last week Harvey agreed to pay for the lines itself. In return, GSA-agreed to give Harvey financial help with the plant in the form of federal loan guarantees, fast tax write-offs and a Government promise to pay in advance for as much as 155,000 tons of aluminum...
...boys along Radio Row and Advertising Alley always enjoy biting the hand that feeds them their gimlets and girls. Latest inmate of an Executive Suite to write an exposé of The Hucksters (TV division) is Al Morgan, a senior editor of NBC's Home show. His book is a shoddy production with characters that are walking clichés (lying down, in the case of the females). Its language sounds like Mickey Spillane trying to sound like Hemingway ("I belched. Loud and clear"). Nevertheless, the book has a minor and terrible fascination for what it tells about...