Word: partnerships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporting and writing soon won him an offer from North American Newspaper Alliance to do a column. His four-year partnership with Robert Kintner, capped by their American White Paper (TIME, April 29, 1940), ended with the war. In the course of a hectic service career Joe served under Chennault, became a young China hand, was interned by the Japanese at Hong Kong. There he made the most of the six months he waited for repatriation by learning to read the Analects of Confucius in the original...
...expanded into a half-hour with music, a kind of parody of coincidence-filled drama, and a wonderful curtain line. Sir Arthur Sullivan was the composer, but the libretto was written by two gentlemen named Morton and Burnand. A few years later Sullivan entered into a much more successful partnership...
...faces and Weber and Fields their happy ones, a different sort of team was approaching its half-century mark with a very untheatrical announcement. "If you don't know Billings and Stover," said the notice, "this will introduce them." But there was no need to be theatrical for this partnership was as familiar to Harvard students as the pump in the Yard and the new lecture hall across the way. Too familiar, perhaps, for countless men would pull the bell out front to see if there really was a nightman ready to fill prescriptions. The nightman has since left...
...prompted into the partnership...
Beatrice Webb died in 1943, aged 85; Sidney followed her last year. To the day of her death, Beatrice was at work on an autobiography based on extracts from her voluminous diaries. My Apprenticeship, which covered her first 30 years, appeared in 1926; Our Partnership, which carries on to 1911, is the next (and last) installment of the unfinished work. "The difficulty," Beatrice Webb realized, "is to tell the truth without being self-conscious about it"-and the result of her efforts is a natural account of a married life which, though it might sound like hell to most...