Word: forms
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...week, year-old Quick took seven-column newspaper ads to compliment itself on attaining a circulation of 850,000, although it was still in & out of the red from week to week. The Cowles brothers' dehydrated news and picture weekly (4 by 6 in.) got a more spontaneous form of flattery last week: Newsweek (circ. 805,461) launched an experimental Quick-sized imitation called People Today. Its editor: Allen Chellas, 39, an alumnus of Parade and Holiday...
...official rate, the gold-producing Union of South Africa devised a slick trick. To cash in on the high unofficial gold prices, yet not break the fund's rules against selling monetary (24-karat) gold at premiums, it began selling premium-priced 22-karat gold in the form of crudely made goblets, statuettes and other "artistic" trinkets, e.g. spoons weighing ½ lb., that were ideal for hoarding...
...syndicate. Same day, Missouri highway patrolmen swarmed into the syndicate's innocent-looking office in a St. Louis suburb. Called the "Gold Bronzing Co.," it purported to be busy gilding keepsake baby shoes. The cops found no baby shoes, but a gold mine of records, ledgers and racing form sheets...
...Crime," observes one of the characters, "is only a left-handed form of human endeavor." To dramatize the point, the picture sets itself the task of probing half a dozen major characters and offering keen glimpses of as many minor ones. Among those in the rogues' gallery: a ruthless hooligan (Sterling Hayden) with a twisted sense of honor and self-respect; an urbane lawyer (Louis Calhern) who is addicted to high living and low morality; a coldly efficient criminal mastermind (Sam Jaffe); a spineless, greedy bookie (Marc Lawrence); a cop-hating hunchback (James Whitmore); a home-loving safecracker (Anthony...
...throne and assume again his full constitutional powers. 2. Another plebiscite be held. 3. He abdicate in favor of his son, Prince Baudouin. 4. He return to the throne and then temporarily cede his powers to his son. 5. The monarchy be abandoned in favor of a Republican form of government...