Word: collier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Short obediently resolved to get along. His and Kimmel's relations were cordial-despite a subsequent Collier's article by President (then Senator) Harry Truman, which represented the two as scarcely speaking...
...days after the Japs finally said "Uncle!," Collier's came out with a Quentin Reynolds "authoritative picture" of how hard the invasion of Japan was going to be. In twelve simultaneous newspaper ads Collier's tried to cover its blushes: "The atom bomb, forecast by Collier's five years back, caught Collier's, as well as the Japs, by surprise...
...course was paying off. To Pupils Penick and Goss came payments for short stories from Collier's and the Atlantic Monthly; to Pupils Morgan and Flynn came advances from Publishers Farrar & Rinehart. These were new testimonials to Teacher Hudson Strode of the University of Alabama and his course in creative writing, English...
...Class of 1946: Gordon Prentiss Baird, Alvan Samuel Berner, Joseph Jay Bernstein, William Aloysius Cahill, Ashley Hale Carter, William Arthur Cawley, Marvin Arthur Collier, Panaghioti Constantin Cotzias, Thomas Richard Drew, Jr., Joseph Austin Erickson, Jr., Robert Louis Feinberg, John Gilman Foster, Robert John Gabler, John Richard Gilman, Jr., Leon Arnold Green, John Joseph Hall, Lee Montgomery Hutchins, 2nd, John Dunster Kettelle, Jr., Robert William Macnamara, Herbert Anthony Mehlhorn, Adams Hoffman Nickerson, Leon Reznick, Norman Alan Wilson...
...paper quota, Tycoon Field at 51 was already off on new ways of spending some of the $168 million he inherited from his storekeeping grandfather. His most ambitious postwar project: a mass-circulation magazine, described by its friends as a kind of New-Dealing Saturday Evening Post or Collier's. Field already has the Saturday Review of Literature's Editor Norman Cousins at work pasting up dummies. So far, says Cousins, everything "is purely exploratory. We are not trying to hide a new baby. If it comes along it will be plenty visible-as is generally the case...