Word: capped
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...window dressing. Rated a supersalesman in Chicago, he distinguished himself there by boosting NBC billings to over a million a month, just twelve times as much as the New York headmen expected him to get when they sent him west in 1928. Big feather in Trammell's Chicago cap was a "million-dollar" contract he wangled with Pepsodent, which transformed Amos 'n' Andy from a sustaining show into a national institution in 1929. A great one for soap operas, he can still point with pride to such Trammell-promoted shows as Clara...
...drives his subordinates, holds conferences all day long, usually eats dinner at his desk. Even when he goes to a formal dinner he never wears a black tie (Litvinoff wore a white tie), and his only sartorial concession to his new job was to replace his cloth cap with a black...
...Madrid, whither they had fled from France (TIME, July 1), the Duke and Duchess of Windsor dined with Miguel Primo de Rivera, provincial chief of the Falangist (Fascist) organization, at the swank Palace Hotel; revealed that on their journey from their Cap d'Antibes villa they had been reduced to eating canned sardines. Confided the Duchess: "They were most delicious...
...Decca believes it is now selling more units than either long-entrenched Victor or Columbia, its chief rivals. Whatever Decca's quantity, the quality of Decca's popular recordings remains outstanding in the business. And last month's Decca list feathered Jack Kapp's cap as never before. From the Cape of Good Hope to the Pacific coast and on around to the Bosporus, Decca had collected a rich variety of old and new music of the people, by the people and - at 35? a crack - for a good many people. Album items: Songs...
Last week Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer of Lincoln, went to the oldest and third oldest universities in the U. S. to get honorary degrees. Harvard and Yale greeted him affectionately. Sandburg, wearing a gown but no cap, his white mane and rugged face gleaming in the sun, gave their commencements a flash of homely Americanism, a flash just bright enough to illumine the shadow of European affairs that all but blacked out their gay, traditional ceremonies...