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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that followed, Preview steadied down into a sense-making 30 minutes, with the emphasis switched from news to guest stars. Last week, Preview took an editorial look at the phrasemaking of Winston Churchill. Then it turned quickly to such eye-catching items as the Katherine Dunham dancers, Singer Eugenie Baird, Cinemactor Kirk Douglas. It was a crisp, entertaining, fast-paced show, and its climbing Hooperating put it right up in the first ten. But it was no longer a news-reporting "magazine of the air." More & more, McCrary's Preview was beginning to look like that old TV standby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Old Standby | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Campaign. In Petersfield, England, Commuter Raymond Francis Baird paid a $42 fine for pulling the emergency-stop cord on a 60-m.p.h. train, asserted: "I have written to the railway ... I will pull all trains up when they are going too fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...Redbird got away first, and for almost six furlongs set the pace, while Arcaro was content to lag behind. (Says Eddie: "Citation's a great competitive colt. He wants speed out in front of him.") On the far turn Citation overtook and easily passed Papa. Jockey R. L. Baird gave Papa a breather around the bend. Most of the fans, and Citation himself, seemed to figure that he had Papa licked. But in the stretch, Baird sent Papa up again. Said Baird later: "For a couple of seconds, I was an optimist. We got up within a half length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Too Much Horse | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Gamesman: 'I was fortunate enough to meet your daughter on Sunday.' " Layman: 'Yes, indeed - I know. She told me.' " Gamesman: 'What wonderful hair - a real Titian.'" Layman: 'Oh - no - that can't have been my daughter - that was Ethel Baird.' " Gamesman: 'Really. But I thought I was talking to your - ' " Layman: 'You were, but that was earlier on.'" Gamesman: 'Was it - but what was the colour of your daughter's hair?" Layman: 'Well-a sort of brown-' Gamesman: "Of course. Of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Potter's Ploys | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...both churches will not vote on union until next year. Then if it is approved by three-fourths of the constituent presbyteries and ratified by both assemblies in 1950, a reunited General Assembly may be held in 1951. Elected Moderator of the northern church: the Rev. Jesse Hays Baird, 59, president of the San Francisco Theological Seminary, third largest seminary in his church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Two or Three | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

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