Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pause that Refreshes. The fair's most satisfying feature, everyone agreed, was the "Gastronomic Village," a broad enclosure with seats for 4,000 people at long tables which were piled high with roast chickens, rolls, and flasks of Chianti. In an open-air kitchen, three cauldrons five feet tall steamed with a never-ending supply of spaghetti. Enthusiastic eaters hacked their way through mountains of food at 450 lire (75?) a meal. After lunch, many stretched out under the shady trees, took off their shoes, spread a copy of Unita over their eyes, and slept...
When the Peronista majority did as it was told, the 40 radical deputies in the 188-member Congress staged an unprecedented scene. One Radical took copies of Peron's new constitution, tore them to bits and threw them in the air. Another smashed a cup and saucer, skimmed the pieces at Chamber President Hector Cam-pora. Still others threw books, pens and pencils at their Peronista colleagues, meanwhile shouting oaths and obscenities. Balbin meanwhile had made a farewell speech and announced that he would present himself before a judge for trial...
...Royal Canadians' record was pretty hard to beat. Consistently, since 1931, radio editors had ranked them among the top dance bands on the air. For 20 years their gross had been near $1,000,000 a year. They had introduced more than 300 hits, such as Little White Lies, You're Driving Me Crazy, Boo-Hoo-and were still playing all of them the same old way. This year, the American Society of Teachers of Dancing thanked them with a Distinguished Service Scroll for consistently acting as a bulwark against "invasions by hordes of cynical jive extremists...
Archie, the dimwitted, malapropped manager of Duffy's Tavern, has never been known to his Third Avenue customers or his nationwide radio audience as a particularly fast man with a buck. But by last week, when Duffy's Tavern (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC) returned to the air, it was clear that Archie was under the smartest kind of management. Rasp-voiced Ed Gardner, who plays Archie and produces the program, had accomplished the modern miracle of getting out of the reach of the tax collector...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Burlesque, with Bert Lahr and Ann Sothern...