Word: pages
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lies anyway. Victor sued for three million francs ($10,000). After weeks of lurid courtroom charges and countercharges, the judge ordered the weekly to pay the court a 15,000-franc ($50) fine, pay Kravchenko 150,000 francs ($500) damages, and print the court decision on its front page...
...information desk of Oklahoma City's Daily Oklahoman, a well-dressed, fidgety woman asked to see "the woman who gives people advice." A receptionist turned the visitor over to blonde Reporter Imogene Patrick, who soon realized that she had a Page One story...
After working hours, Jimmy was off to parties with old Broadway friends. Soon he had a new one: Actress Betty Compton. Their relationship became a Page One scandal. "If you have to be a sneak to get votes," snapped Jimmy, "then count me out right now." All went as gaily as a magic-carpet ride-until the Crash. In 1931, the New York state legis- lature voted an investigation of charges of corruption in the Walker administration. "A tempest in a pot," said Jimmy...
Died. Burton Jesse Hendrick, 77, scholarly biographer-historian-journalist (McClure's Magazine-see PRESS) and three-time Pulitzer Prizewinner: once for history (The Victory at Sea, 1920 co-authored with Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims), twice for biography (The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, 1922; The Training of an American, 1928); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...talk of the age into which I was born as a great age. I regard it as the most villainous page of recorded history . . . And the twentieth century is no better ... I have become the father confessor of the whole world ... I often get letters addressed to the Reverend George B. Shaw. You can deceive people some of the time, but they ultimately discover your true vocation . . . What if the central figure [in a play] is a man of wealth and very old? And . . . people gather around to advise him what to do with his money? The joke will...