Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand, and an idea in her head that she would become a "high dramatic soprano." But the big time was hard to break into: Juanita Hall was 35 before she padded onto a Broadway stage as Bloody Mary, the betel-chewing Tonkinese mama in South Pacific (TIME, April 18) and stole a considerable piece of that smash hit from Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week for the American Iron & Steel Institute's annual convention, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, Harry Truman's good-will ambassador to U.S. business, brought them mixed tidings. For one thing, they were not alone in their doldrums; in April, Sawyer's economists had reported, the sales of all manufacturers slumped $1.2. billion from March to the lowest monthly total ($16.9 billion) this year. But Sawyer was optimistic : the gross national output, as he pointed out later in the week, was still running ahead of 1948, there was still a strong...
...Barkleys of Broadway. Expert hoofing and whirling by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (TIME, April...
...Robert Ryan in a hard-slugging account of the fall of an overage pug (TIME, April...
Champion. The life & death story of a prizefighting heel who becomes a public hero; brilliantly played by Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...