Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the show's producer, Cecil B. DeMille, left radio because of a fight with the American Federation of Radio Artists over his refusal to pay a $1 union assessment for a political fund, Keighley got the job. A wartime Army Air Forces colonel in charge of the A.A.F. motion picture services and a Hollywood producer (The Man Who Came to Dinner, George Washington Slept Here), Keighley...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Dorothy McGuire and Cornel Wilde in Coquette...
...this form of the disease, rarer but far deadlier than spinal polio, the virus attacks the bulb or brain stem. The iron lung often will not work on bulbar polio because the patient's breathing is jerky. with an irregular rhythm; his intake and release of air cannot be synchronized with the iron lung's regular beat. But bulbar polio has one feature which fitted in well with Dr. Sarnoff's theory: it generally leaves the phrenic nerve undamaged...
...week, National's President George T. ("Ted") Baker was hardly acting like a man who expected to shut up shop. He announced that he would launch a new, luxury "Star" flight from New York to Miami this week, in all-out competition against Eddie Rickenbacker's Eastern Air Lines...
...same publisher who brought out Cheaper by the Dozen (TIME,, June 13), another tale of life with father, which was a surprise bestseller last spring. With full publicity behind it, Riot could easily sell almost as well. Yet the book has little of Dozen's natural air of comedy in it; it relies on carefully measured doses of laughing gas, slightly under pressure...