Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East Africa (bag thus far: five lions, 38 assorted wild critters), beefy Tenor Lauritz Melchior had a narrow squeak. The Metropolitan's veteran dragonslayer fired as a charging Cape buffalo came at him, fired again & again & again, finally dropped the one-ton beast less than ten feet away...
...Guide is a modest moneymaker, but the Youngs look forward to the day when the paper will no longer be needed. Says T. W., who is president of the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association: "If the daily newspapers . . . adequately reported [Negro news] and crusaded against all injustices . . . they would take away the . . . reason why Negro newspapers exist...
...Just and Durable Peace, has led a devoted band of Christian thinkers in serious efforts to apply Christian principles to the tough and thorny problems of the world as it is. This time he was able to show that Protestant influence had been effective in leading the U.S. away from isolationism toward a sense of realistic responsibility for the peace and liberty of men & women in other countries. Illusion V. Faith. According to Dulles, it is quite wrong to say that a third world war is inevitable. "Today there are assets for peace which were wholly lacking before World...
...President Niles Trammell had a job of explaining to do. In recent months, CBS had charmed away five of his top attractions (Jack Benny, Amos 'n' Andy, Red Skelton, Frank Sinatra, Edgar Bergen), beat him to a big sixth (Bing Crosby). NBC had lost talent to Columbia before, but never in such great clumps. The network's 164 affiliated stations were uneasy and fidgety...
...recording (London Records) of You Can't Be True, Dear first hit the U.S. last May, thousands of fans bought the platter and listened. Here, for a change, was a girl who really sang, straight out and straight on the beat, instead of cooing mushily and straying away from the band. Last month, her warmly sung Again crept into Variety as a comer on the coin machines. By last week, Vera and Again seemed headed straight for the hit parade...