Word: yet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Card Expert Mrs. Ottilie H. Reilly introduced the game to Manhattan's Regency Club last spring, wrote scholarly articles about it for Vogue. The game has rapidly gained popularity in the U.S., but Hollywood, usually a fast town with a fad, is not yet convinced. Canasta was tried out recently at the Bel Air Country Club, and flopped. Reason: too intellectual...
...Yet virtually every major comedian feels robbed. Says Bob Hope: "When you see Berle, you're seeing the best things of anybody who has ever been on Broadway ... I want to get into television before he uses up all my material." Jack Benny is smarting over what he considers the theft of a hillbilly sketch, which Milton claims to have used first. Says Fred Allen: "He's done everybody's act. He's a parrot with skin on." Eddie Cantor is rankled because, he says, Milton recently used a sketch written for Cantor...
Money for the institute's future will come from streptomycin, the best treatment yet discovered for tuberculosis. By all the signs, there will be plenty of money to work with. Eight pharmaceutical companies pay the foundation 2½% of the price they get, now $1 or less a gram; production, steadily rising, has reached 8,000,000 grams a month, which means almost $200,000 a month income...
...Steel Corp. has a 22-story building in downtown Manhattan that houses its main offices and the conference rooms in which much of its important business is transacted. Yet for 48 years, the important business of the annual stockholders' meeting has been transacted across the Hudson River in Hoboken, N.J., in a small bank building.* Last week at Big Steel's annual meeting, only 350 stockholders (out of a total of 228,000) bothered to come. But not even all of them could find a place to sit; for three sweltering hours 50 of them had to stand...
...House had so many literary children it didn't know what to do. Its latest offspring, the 25? "Wonder Books" for children, had sold 2,000,000 copies in six weeks, and threatened to keep Random House so busy that it would not have time for other books. Yet it hated to curb such a promising child. Last week, Random House found a solution. It sold the children's books to Wonder Books, Inc., a new company owned jointly by reprint publishers Grosset & Dunlap (60%) and the Curtis Publishing...