Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no book of rules for television announcers, and Stanton learned the tricks by trial & error. Before many weeks, he was supplying rules and statistics for bewildered sports fans, ignoring the obvious, calling an occasional play wrong to delight armchair experts, devising a set of silent signals and on-the-air cues for his cameramen and spotters, keeping his commentary at a slow pace so that the cameras could follow without jerky images. His friends helped out by bar-hopping and giving him reports of audience reaction to his sportcasting. For a while, he had an uneasy sensation that...
...Taipeh last week, General Chen relaxed complacently in a Japanese armchair beneath a pot of purplish-pink azaleas. Then, leaning toward the green brocaded table cover, grey mustache bristling, dark little eyes sharp under their puffy lids, he spoke...
Background information of the Chinese revolution, a major problem facing the foreign ministers at Moscow, will be given by John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, tonight over WHCN. Fairbank will be featured in "Armchair Audit" at 9 o'clock, when he will deliver his History 83 lecture, "Sun Yat Sen and Chiang KaiShek...
Continuing its series of "Armchair Audits," the Crimson Network will present B. J. Whiting '25 associate professor of English, tonight. Professor whiting repeats his English 18 lecture "Pameia and Shamela" at 9 o'clock...
...Yesterdays, sung by the girls' octet, it was time for "remarks." The state Superintendent, at the peak of his form, called Miss Lizzie "an honored member of an honored profession." Then they gave Miss Lizzie the presents everybody had chipped in to buy: a walnut desk, an armchair, an ottoman, a lamp and a radio. For good measure the board of Education tossed in a little brass schoolbell, which Miss Lizzie rang to end the banquet. It was also almost, not quite, the end to her 50 years of teaching: she plans to retire...