Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Television's real growth came after World War II, and by its tenth birthday last week, commercial TV was very commercial indeed; a TV set was no longer a temperamental toy, but the everyday benzedrine or phenobarbital of the masses. Now there are 109 stations in 66 cities; the hour of TV time that cost $120 on July 1, 1941 cost $3,250 last week. There are four Eastern networks, each with an outpost on the West Coast; the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. is building the last section of a coaxial cable and radio relay system which will link...
...Christians is appearing in "Black Chiffon"; the week of July 30th Claudette Colbert will star in a new play by Noel Coward entitled "Island Fling"; the week of August 18th Roody MacDowell will appear in "The Youngest"; and on August 20th Imogene Coca, of television notoriety, appears in "Happy Birthday...
Carolyn Bigham graduated from Central High School in Charlotte, N.C. last year, just before her 19th birthday, and went to work in the flower department of a local store. Last month Carolyn had survived a grave illness and was just finishing grammar school again...
...ceilinged concourse, 21 broad stairways lead to 28 bus-loading stations where 750 buses load and unload the building each day. The concourse's walls are lined with shops where the Pentagonian can buy a uniform or a brassiére, a bestseller or a funeral wreath, a birthday cake or a railroad ticket, get a haircut or a loan. Once a guiding officer boasted to visiting General Henri Giraud that the Pentagon office girl could buy both a wedding ring and a baby carriage within its walls. The Frenchman asked: "Which do they buy first...
...occasion of Becher's 60th birthday last May, Mann wrote him: "I love and honor in Johannes R. Becher the man-this deeply stirred heart ... an ethos of continuity which predestines him emotionally to be a Communist and which politically has become a Communist creed. His Communism has positively patriotic color; as a matter of fact, it fulfills itself in patriotism . . . The day will come when all the German people will thank...