Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jack Benny (Sun. 7 p.m., CBS). Back for a new season...
...When I helped Anna White I had no idea of getting something back," mused Portia. "But now, at a time when I need her most, she comes to me offering to try to get the facts I need to break Steve Ward's alibi. God has a strange and wonderful way of knowing what He's doing...
...being torn between the nice living I've made out of radio and the sense of shame I have at turning out the kind of stuff women listeners demand." Whenever she tried making Portia "more rounded," a sliding Hooperating and a cascade of angry letters sent her scurrying back to the shelter of the nearest clump of clich...
...awaiting the verdict of the book reviewers, Miss Kent is again back at her typewriter, leading Portia into (and successfully out of) a new maze of troubles. "This is my tenth year of writing Portia Faces Life" she says. Then, glancing nervously at her novel: "Or it will be if I still have...
There are seats to match. When Mussolini started summer opera at the baths in 1937, he ordered a theater for 20,000, was seldom able to fill it. At war's end, Romans reduced the seating capacity to 10,000 so that back-row listeners could have a chance to hear...