Word: beams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playing in cafes. For the dancing pleasure of the "Geechies," Negroes from around Charleston, S.C. and Savannah, Ga., he worked up his noted Carolina Shout. Near Manhattan's 37th St., in the "Old Tenderloin," he studied under Ablaba, a honkytonk pianist with a "left hand like a walking beam." On that beam he modeled his own "walking bass." By 1920 he had what French jazz enthusiasts are apt to call majesty...
...least surrounded Miss Garson with children, though they were other people's, and illegitimate, to boot. More important, it first mated this predestined dove with Walter Pidgeon. Blossoms was Miss Garson's first real hit as a leading lady. But where Blossoms fumbled for the Garson beam, Mrs. Miniver found it, and rode it into box-office history. Random Harvest rode it right out of the park...
Died. George Arthur ("Pop") Corry, 80, Grand Old Man of U.S. sailing, perpetual commodore of the International Star Yacht Racing Association; in Manhattan. When the Star class of sloops (overall length 22 ft. 8¾ in.; beam 5 ft. 8¼ in.; draft approximately 3 ft. 4 in.) was designed in 1911, high-collared, Long Island Sounder Corry registered his Little Dipper as No.1. He won some 500 trophies, taught hundreds of amateur sailors, in 1939 was chairman of the international Star races at Kiel...
...gave an especially striking illumination of the future of heating and lighting. In a Manhattan show for architects and designers, Westinghouse engineers displayed: > Brilliant fluorescent lamps, not attached to any wiring, carried freely around the room. The energy that lit these wireless lamps came from a high-frequency radio beam generated by a physician's ordinary diathermy set. (Westinghouse admitted that this was a stunt, said that wireless electric power might not be commercially practical for many years. But the Federal Communications Commission is already planning to reserve part of the postwar radio spectrum for wireless heating and cooking...
...then that we picked up, in the beam of a searchlight, a ship's bow protruding from the quiet sea. The Admiral ordered a destroyer to investigate. For a long time the destroyer was silent, as she also threw a beam. The Admiral kept asking 'Who is it? Who is it? Acknowledge. Acknowledge...