Word: airings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Of Mice and Men, with Burgess Meredith and June Havoc...
Honking merrily, the red & yellow buses bumped along the back roads of North Carolina. At Laurinburg (pop. 5,685) they pulled up in front of an old Air Force camp theater, and 60 musicians tumbled out with their instruments. An audience of kids, who had trekked in from all over corn-and cotton-raising Scotland County, was there already, waiting for one of the 117 concerts that Conductor Benjamin Swalin's peripatetic North Carolina Symphony Orchestra (and its 23-man task force) will play at more than 60 highway & byway spots in the state this spring...
...gregarious, Hadden preferred the company of ragamuffins to that of stuffed shirts, liked to give and go to parties, once wound one up by setting out with an air rifle for a rat hunt in a friend's apartment. While editor of TIME he still played baseball in Central Park, or got up at 6 a.m. to play catch with his apartment janitor. But he had sublimated his ambition to be a baseball star into a desire to make $1,000,000 before he was 30. He also hoped one day to own the New York Yankees...
Married. Dom Joāo de Orléans e Bragança, 33, great-grandson of Brazil's last emperor, now a captain in the Brazilian air force; and Princess Fatima, 26, sister-in-law of Egypt's King Farouk; she for the second time; in Sintra, Portugal...
...illustrate how his Alleghany Corp. has been expanding into other fields and greener pastures. Since early 1948, Alleghany had sold more than $17 million of its railroad holdings, because Young was bearish on their earnings' future. Among the sales: Alleghany's entire common-stock interest in Seaboard Air Line Railroad and most of its holdings in Central of Georgia and Florida East Coast Railway Co. (all roads where Young could not get control). Alleghany also plans to sell its holdings of 225,000 shares of Rock Island common stock, and get out of that road...