Word: swap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formula of the two couples who swap mates, Brook is ably assisted by Beatrice Lillie, one of Britain's top comediennes. Heading a list of superlative supporting characters, Miss Lillie is at her best repulsing the amorous attempts of her weak-kneed suitor...
This cultural promotion is neatly capsuled in informal charm. Three or four critics swap frank opinions about a current bestseller, while the author sits by and takes it. Then the author gets a chance to talk back. Participants in last week's recordings: the New York Herald Tribune's Lewis Gannett, Story magazine's Whit Burnett, American Magazine's John K. M. McCaffery (who acts as m.c.) and Author Richard Wright (Black Boy -TIME, March...
...returned to Hollywood and to immediate offers from Warner, Lester Cowan, M.G.M. and David 0. Selznick. But Selznick alone met her terms-willing as she was to swap careers at a discount. He agreed to pay her $250 a week for the first six months, $350 (her present salary) for the second, plus an expense account which includes her clothes, a titanic item,* and everything else that has anything remotely to do with business...
...elementary journalism and a lifetime of nostalgia. In city rooms and editorial sanctums all over the U.S. there are oldtimers ready at the drop of a Martini to reminisce about the Herald's drafty, dingy shop in the rue du Louvre beside a clangorous trolley line; to swap legends about the fabulous, wispy, ageless columnist "Sparrow" Robertson who sent his copy over from Harry's New York Bar and lived 20 years in Paris knowing only one word of French-ici; to quote the letter signed "Old Philadelphia Lady" (asking how to convert Centigrade into Fahrenheit) which appeared...
Look Out. In Tulsa, a "Let's Swap" column listed: "Exchange. Unused engagement and wedding rings. Want automatic shotgun...