Word: beams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Downes goes home, having met his midnight deadline, and suspects that his review is not strictly on the beam throughout, but when the occasion demands, he becomes comforted by the supposition that a vital piece of music (and by implication a vital artist) is bound to register favorably some day, no matter what the critics say. It is no easy task to balance this theory with some stark and fully documented facts presented by Miss Olga Samaroff. To get booking with a decent manager these days, in a country full of budding Rubinsteins and Heifetzes, a young artist must have...
...whole thing as moonshine. Nevertheless, Dewey, who insists that the theory is based on objective facts, was an accurate enough prophet to predict, in 1943, what many experts are now saying, that the boom would reach its peak in 1947. And Shelf Union Oil Corp., welcoming even a beam of moonshine in the murky field of economics, has recommended the book for its executives...
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...next three years Allen had three shows. It was in 1935, with Town Hall Tonight, that Fred really got on the radio beam. Not long after, he latched on to the biggest stunt of his career: his feud with Jack Benny. One night he assured a guest on his program, a twelve-year-old violinist, that he played the Flight of the Bumble Bee better than Benny played it after 40 years of practicing. Showman Benny knew a cue when he heard one. For ten years radio's biggest running gag has been kept alive without a single backstage...
...methods are being tested to get them safely down out of the crowded air. One method: GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) watches the plane with radar while operators on the ground "talk" it down through the soup. The other: ILS (Instrument Landing System) guides the plane down a slanting radio beam...