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Word: sunday (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...follows up with announcements about who is in the cast, who is directing, what the play is about, where it will tryout, when it will open. With luck, that produces ten unpaid advertisements. His first real chance to prove his worth comes in landing big advance stories in the Sunday papers. At such times his only task is selling the editor his idea for a story. Once the idea is sold, Maney (unlike other press agents) writes a story too good for an editor to throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Portrait of a Press Agent | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all instructors and members of the faculties and their wives at 17 Quincy Street on Sunday, January 7th, from four to six o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY TEA | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

...prison-model machinery of blocks, cells, wardens. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, he was made head of the Labor Front, proceeded forcibly to liquidate the free trade unions, numbering 4,000,000 members. In his ability to incite-and entertain, he combined the talents of Billy Sunday and Billy Rose. He staged the vast Nürnberg Party rallies each year, and built the "Strength Through Joy" organization, which mass-produced recreation, playgrounds, loyalty-all convertible for war uses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Our Faith! | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...staging its Sunday night Screen Guild Theatre over 64 CBS stations, the late Andrew Mellon's Gulf Oil Corp. pays the living William Green's Screen Actors Guild a flat $10,000 a week. It pays other costs, too-some $5,000 for production costs, $8,350 for air time. But the S. A. G.'s weekly $10,000, for which it volunteers the talents of 90% of Hollywood's great, goes straight into a Motion Picture Relief Fund, earmarked for the construction of a cinema old folks' home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Little Miss Christmas | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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