Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reiner didn't get quite the cast he had in mind, but the cast he faced across the footlights was one that no conductor could kick about: big-voiced Leonard Warren as the fat Sir John himself, brilliant young Giuseppe Valdengo, who made his first big U.S. splash as Lago in Toscanini's 1947 broadcast of Otello, Soprano Licia Albanese and Mezzo Cloe Elmo...
Died. Charles O'Neill, 61, big-time coal dealer and top spokesman for the soft-coal operators in their perennial battle with John L. Lewis over contract negotiations; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New Rochelle...
...Pasadena, Calif. A one-time explorer, Porter went with Peary on two polar expeditions, got interested in astronomy while marooned for two years in the Arctic. At the Mt. Palomar project, Porter's three-dimensional scale drawings were a vital factor in the design and construction of the big telescope...
...airlines had anxiously wondered how much CAB would give them in retroactive airmail pay. The lines had asked for the back pay, contending that their mail contracts had failed to take account of the full rise in costs. Last week CAB unwrapped a big and shiny award. It granted $7,800,000 in retroactive mail pay to seven lines: American, United, T.W.A., Northeast, Northwest, National and Challenger. (This was almost enough to wipe out the whole industry's loss...
...station (WBKB) will go to the theater company. The movie company will get the Los Angeles station (KTLA), and the controlling interest in Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. With Paramount and RKO (TIME, Nov. 8) out of the fight, the Justice Department hoped that the rest of the "Big Five" (Loew's, Warner Bros, and 20th Century-Fox) would also come to terms...